Assemblyman fights for life-saving bill

Jordan Serwin was 2 when his parents learned the La Cañada Flintridge boy had leukemia. He was 6 when an unusual treatment, a transplant of blood cells from an umbilical cord and placenta of a woman in New York, stopped the disease and set his life on a normal track.

By Bill Kisliuk, bill.kisliuk@latimes.com

August 19, 2010