Background: Umbilical cord blood is used as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for bone
marrow transplantation in the treatment of malignant and nonmalignant disease. We sought …

BACKGROUND The offer of return of research results to study participants has many potential
benefits. The current study examined the offer of return of research results by analyzing …

BACKGROUND Researchers have a moral responsibility to offer to return research results
to participants, but the needs and attitudes of parents and adolescents with cancer in …

Purpose Immune thrombopenic purpura (ITP) is an important childhood hematologic
disorder that is often frightening to patients and their parents because of its acute onset and …

Stem cells obtained from umbilical cord blood (CB) have been used to treat over 80 different
diseases and have become a standard treatment for many types of leukemias, lymphomas, …

… Conrad V, Fernandez, Kevin Gordon, Michael, Taweel. Knowledge and attitudes of pregnant
women with regard to collection, testing and banking of cord blood stem cells. Can Med …

Background: Nowadays the collection of stem cells from the umbilical cord blood is one of
the most important topics of health sciences. Pregnant women need to understand or at the …

Culture is what influences us and shapes us into who we are and what we become later on
in life, this study runs with this concept. This study includes three groups of participants: 60 …

IntroductionIn this study, we tested a simple, active “ethical consistency” intervention aimed
at reducing researchers’ endorsement of questionable research practices (QRPs). …

In 2009, Time magazine named “biobanks” as one of the 10 ideas changing the world.
These organized collections of human biological material and associated data have been …