Mother Is First in Britain to Donate Baby's Stem Cells ; Local London

Evening Standard - London › September 11, 2008

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EAST DULWICH: A London mother is the first in Britain to donate her baby's stem cells to a life-saving blood bank.

Camilla Judge, 33, from East Dulwich, signed up for the scheme when pregnant with her daughter Darcey, now eight months. In the painless five-minute procedure doctors at King's College used a sterile needle to remove blood from Mrs Judge's placenta and Darcey's umbilical cord soon after birth.

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Mother Is First in Britain to Donate Baby's Stem Cells ; Local London

King's is the first of 10 hospitals in the country to extra...

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