 If you are delivering your baby in Texas, as per Texas state law, a blood sample will be taken from your baby by the hospital staff and will be sent to the Department of State Health Services to be tested for inherited diseases, known as Newborn Screening. You will be asked to sign a release form which will allow the Department of State Health Services to release these Newborn screening results to the MD Anderson Cord Blood Bank. Since such diseases may be passed on through transplant, your donated cord blood unit will not be banked if positive results are received. The Department of State Health Services will notify your physician of positive or unclear Newborn screening results. 