Research Library

Stem cells from umbilical cord blood (CB) can be used to treat over 80 different diseases, including many types of leukemia, lymphoma and inherited immune system disorders. Extensive storage facilities in the United States and around the world collect, test and freeze CB for later use in medical procedures. However, the divide between two different banking models — public versus private — presents policy challenges. This policy report examines the difference between public and private cord blood banks and offers recommendations for US policymakers to improve cord blood banking and ensure high quality standards.

After more than five decades, China's central government is modernizing, standardizing and regulating the Hukou system of registration that largely tied farmers to the lands on which they were born, and kept them out of the cities and away from competing with urban residents for jobs and benefits. China is now officially gradually phasing out its highly unequal two-tier system of citizenship.

This article analyzes the "Global Burden of Disease Study 2010" and examines the study's implications for neglected tropical diseases.

Baker Institute health policy experts Hagop M. Kantarjian and Vivian Ho explain why Texas, which holds the notorious record of the highest rate of uninsured citizens in the U.S., should follow many Republican-led states that are now reconsidering the Medicaid expansion program under Obamacare.

Many contemporary medical ethicists dismiss the centuries-old Hippocratic Oath as outdated because of the enormous scientific, social, economic, and political changes since Hippocrates' time. Health policy scholar Hagop Kantarjian makes a case for its relevance.

A Civic Scientist Précis on Robert F. Curl Jr., Ph.D., Sir Harold Kroto, Ph.D., and the late Richard Smalley, Ph.D.

A Civic Scientist Précis on Stephen Minger, Ph.D.

A study on whether state certificate of need regulations influence procedural mortality or the provision of coronary artery bypass graft surgery and percutaneous coronary interventions.

A Civic Scientist Précis on Neal Lane, Ph.D.