Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how proteins expressed in umbilical cord blood at birth evolve during ...

Unrelated cord blood transplant demonstrated efficacy in patients with blood cancer after microcystic adnexal carcinoma.

Cord blood banking involves collecting blood left in your newborn's umbilical cord and placenta and storing it for future medical use. Cord blood contains potentially life-saving cells called stem ...

Definition. Bacterial infection of the umbilical stump with spread to the skin around it. It's a medical emergency. How Often. 1 out of 200 newborns. Symptoms. Redness spreads around the navel. The ...

An Oklahoma couple is thanking a quick-acting hospital security guard for helping to safely deliver their baby into the world ...

Idit Ohel learned on Monday that her son was being starved and chained in an underground tunnel with multiple untreated ...

Tammy P. McConnell, MSN, RN; Connie W. Lee, EdD, ARNP, IBCLC; Mary Couillard, PhD, RN, CS, FNP; Windsor Westbrook Sherrill, PhD, MBA, MHA ...

A kind of umbilical cord between different quantum states can be found in some materials. Researchers at TU Wien have now shown that this "umbilical cord" is generic to many materials. It is a ...

A pregnant woman gave birth while on a subway train in Manhattan, according to officials. The 25-year-old went into labor ...

Thats right, around a third of a baby’s volume of blood will be where it belongs – in your baby and not discarded. This study clearly states: “Early clamping of the baby’s umbilical cord at birth, a ...

Learn more about the potential benefits of delayed umbilical cord clamping, including increased blood flow and improved iron ...

A packed train in Manhattan quickly turned into a delivery room and straphangers became midwives, as riders banded together to deliver a baby when the mother went into labor while aboard the subway.