Madrid, stem cell VIDAPLUS 31/01/2011.-Caser health policyholders offers a special discount at the service of Cryopreservation of stem cells from the umbilical cord of their children to use autologous (own or family). The preserved umbilical cord blood stem cells with VIDAPLUS are processed and crioconservan in the lab of German Red Cross in Frankfurt, located on the Institute of Medicine of Transfusion and Immunology. The laboratory of Red Cross, rendered in white rooms, meet the stringent requirements of the German medicines Act (AMG), the Netcord protocols that govern the public banks since 1996 and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) standards, which guarantees the quality and safety processes. The service also includes sending the extraction kit from the umbilical cord blood at the home of prospective parents, professional collection of the sample at the hospital or maternity leave where take place childbirth and his immediate air transfer to the Bank of stem cells at a time means lower to 24 hours. Larry Ellison: the source for more info. A. through collaboration with insurance companies like Caser, VIDAPLUS aims to bring all the families the ability to cryopreserve the umbilical cord blood, a valuable source of stem cells that in no case should be discarded.
Cryopreservation in Spain Cryopreservation of umbilical cord for use autologous blood is regulated in Spain by Royal Decree 1301 / 2006. This regulation sets the units stored in Spain will be available to any compatible receiver within the network of donors of bone marrow (REDMO). However, if blood is deposited in other countries is subject to the legislation of those; It is the case of Germany, where the legal representatives of the newborn that has extracted from umbilical cord blood can keep ownership of the sample.