News and Information About GA Senate Bill 148, the `Saving the Cure` Act
Staff editorial published by The Savannah Morning News
February 27, 2007
A state Senate bill calls for a program to educate expecting parents on the benefits of donating umbilical cord blood to stem cell research.
MORE PARENTS might decide to donate the stem cells from their babies’ umbilical cord blood if they knew the procedure was free, easy and [...]
Posted on February 28th, 2007 by admin
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Published in the Savannah Morning News
February 27, 2007
By Ann Hart
Most mothers don’t donate their newborns’s cord blood stem cells even though donating is free, easy, non-controversial. And it saves lives.
If you give birth in Chatham County now, chances are you won’t be asked whether you want to donate your baby’s left-over umbilical cord blood stem [...]
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Published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
February 22, 2007
By Sonji Jacobs
A proposal that would promote non-embryonic stem cell research and collection in Georgia cleared a Senate committee today.
Senate Bill 148 would establish a Newborn Umbilical Cord Blood Bank or network of such banks in Georgia. All hospitals in the state would be required as of June 30, [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by admin
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Published in The Augusta Chronicle, Savannah Morning-News and The Times-Union
February 14, 2007
The state bill would enable umbilical cord and amniotic fluid collection methods.
By Vicky Eckenrode, Morris News Service
vicky.eckenrode@morris.com, (678) 977-4601
ATLANTA – A Republican senator Tuesday reintroduced his bill creating a statewide network of centers to collect stem cells for research as long as they do [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2007 by admin
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Published in the Macon Telegraph
February 14, 2007
By Travis Fain
The debate about stem cell research is simmering at the Capitol, and a bill that would push the state’s focus toward “nondestructive stem cell research” is again moving through the lawmaking process.
Senate Bill 148 calls for a network of tissue and fluid banks where stem cells harvested [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2007 by admin
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