Mississippi law to help track fathers takes effect July 1 Mississippi’s first-in-the-nation law requiring physicians and midwives to collect umbilical cord blood from mothers under 16 when they are suspected victims of sexual abuse, most often statutory rape, becomes effective July 1.
June 16, 2013 - Memphis Commercial Appeal
FDA gives rare certification to LifeSouth cord blood program The Food and Drug Administration has approved LifeSouth Community Blood Center's license to manufacture cord blood, making LifeCord, a program of LifeSouth, the fifth public cord blood bank in the country to receive an FDA license.
June 14, 2013 - The Ocala Star-Banner