TY - JOUR AU - Murdoch, Blake AU - Marcon, Alessandro R AU - Caulfield, Timothy PY - 2020 DA - 2020/07/01 TI - The law and problematic marketing by private umbilical cord blood banks JO - BMC Medical Ethics SP - 52 VL - 21 IS - 1 AB - Private umbilical cord blood banking is a for-profit industry in which parents pay to store blood for potential future use. Governments have noted the tendency for private banks to oversell the potential for cord blood use, especially in relation to speculative cell therapies not yet supported by clinical evidence. We assessed the regulatory landscape governing private cord bank marketing in Canada. SN - 1472-6939 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-020-00494-2 DO - 10.1186/s12910-020-00494-2 ID - Murdoch2020 ER -