Your baby’s umbilical cord is his lifeline, connecting him to your placenta. Any abnormality in the way it's attached to the placenta can put a pregnancy at higher risk of complications. A velamentous ...

Q: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, ...

A woman who did not realise she was pregnant has described giving birth alone at the beauty parlour where she worked before ...

After the baby has been delivered, the umbilical cord is clamped and about 2 to 3 ounces of the blood it contains are collected. The blood is then transferred to a specially prepared bag and sent ...

The cord and placenta cells were transferred into a ... and said taking stem cells from a baby's umbilical cord was "effective biological health insurance", providing options for treatment of ...

Immediate cord clamping is often included as part of ... n = 963), need for manual removal of the placenta (RR, 1.59; 95% CI, 0.78–3.26; n = 1515), instances of the third stage of labor lasting ...

Cord blood transplants can help save the lives of patients with leukemia as well as other blood cancers and genetic diseases. Found in the placenta and the umbilical cords of newborns, cord blood stem ...

Susquehanna Regional Police are investigating a social media post related to the case of a baby buried in an East Donegal Township backyard.

Q My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know how that ...