Hawaii Cord Blood Bank

10/15/2024

World Cord Blood Day is one month away on November 15th! Discover the power of cord blood stem cells at this free virtual event.

World Cord Blood Day is organized & hosted ​by ​Save the Cord Foundation (a 501c3 non-profit), which promotes awareness of the life-saving benefits of cord blood based on unbiased and factual information.

World Cord Blood Day 2024 Official Virtual Conference

09/16/2024

September is blood cancer awareness month. Umbilical cord blood contains blood rich in blood stem cells that have the power to help treat blood cancers and disorders.

Learn more about donating your baby's cord blood to help save a life here:

Cord blood contains the same kind of special cells as bone marrow, and like bone marrow, has been used in transplants to cure patients with otherwise fatal diseases. The Hawai'i Cord Blood Bank is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help save the lives of patients in need of such transplan...

08/12/2024

Lucy is a high-spirited 7-year-old who enjoys reading, ballet and riding her bike. At 6 months old, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). A cord blood transplant was the life-saving treatment Lucy needed and now she can celebrate every milestone, both big and small thanks to the mother who donated cord blood.

Learn about the power of umbilical cord blood:

Discover the power of umbilical cord blood, why donation is important and how you help a patient receive a cure for a life-threatening blood cancer or blood disease.

07/24/2024

Listen to Jakob's story and the importance of diversity in cord blood!

07/08/2024

July is Cord Blood Awareness Month! We are grateful to all those who donate their cord blood, the OBs and RNs who collect the cord blood for donation, and our generous monetary donors.

Cord blood contains the same kind of special cells as bone marrow, and like bone marrow, has been used in transplants to cure patients with otherwise fatal diseases. The Hawai'i Cord Blood Bank is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help save the lives of patients in need of such transplan...

06/25/2024

When Kristin Kleinhofer's acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) returned, she picked a mantra, a quote by Christopher Reeve: "Once you choose hope, anything's possible." It's this hope, along with the decision made by two families to donate their babies' cord blood and the generosity of more than 90 blood donors, that powers Kristin today.

Listen to this story from Northwest :
https://www.buzzsprout.com/775991/15021630-choosing-hope-kristin-s-blood-cancer-story-s5-e30

05/12/2024

Thank you to the mothers that chose to donate their baby’s umbilical cord blood to help save a life.

04/23/2024

This Earth Day, make a difference by donating your baby's umbilical cord blood. By doing so, you can help save a life and make a positive impact on the world!

03/20/2024

A great listen if you have some time for this podcast. Featured is Eseosa (Sosa) as she tells her story involving sickle cell, blood transfusions, stem cell transplant, cord blood, and more.

Are you an "open book"? Can people tell how tired you are or what kind of day you've had just by the look in your eye?  Well, there's a young woman in North Carolina named Eseosa Evbuomwan who says that she, "does not look like what she's bee...