Tag: Steven Joffe

Nation & World
Banking of umbilical cord blood has little physician support

A survey of physicians has found broad support for the position that parents should not bank their newborns’ umbilical cord blood in a private blood bank unless another member of…

March 6, 2009

4 minutes
Nation & World
New study provides mixed report card on informed consent to cancer clinical trials

According to a study that appeared in the Nov. 24, 2001, issue of The Lancet, nearly one quarter of cancer patients who participate in clinical trials do not realize that…

November 26, 2001

1 minute