Health committee  I can take that one.

Health committee  Legally, they're considered waste products. But because there is a value attached to them, we do have very rigorous consenting in the donation, and we use the mother as the person who is giving permission for the cord blood, which legally would belong to the infant. Interesting

Health committee  No, there isn't. It would be restrictive trade, so the banks have their own fee structures, and the cost of a cord can range between $20,000 up to $42,000, at least from the dollars that we see on the transplant centre side. Once you start looking at using two cord blood units fo

Health committee  The Health Canada regulations are right on target. You have to remember that cord blood is going into an immunocompromised patient, so we really need high standards and we need to do everything possible to prevent the transfer of infection. You don't want to push Health Canada to

Health committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair and committee. I'll be brief. I'm speaking as a pediatric blood and marrow transplant physician who uses cord blood as the primary choice of stem cells for transplant in children who do not have a donor in the family, and also as a person who's

Health committee  Yes, no problem.