When you hear about knots in the umbilical cord, it can sound worrying, but they aren’t always dangerous. These knots usually ...

The umbilical cord is a life-sustaining tube that connects your baby to your placenta. Some issues can develop with the cord during pregnancy. After birth, it’s easy to care for your baby’s cord stump ...

Umbilical cord prolapse is a medical emergency. It happens when the umbilical cord slips through your cervix, the opening to your uterus, and into your vagina. It puts your baby at great risk of ...

Milking the umbilical cord--gently squeezing the cord and pushing the contents into the newborn's abdomen before clamping the cord--could increase the risk for severe intraventricular hemorrhage, or ...

Omphalocele is a birth defect of the abdominal wall. It affects a fetus as it’s growing inside the mother. Normally, when a fetus is 6 to 10 weeks along, part of the developing intestines push outward ...

FREDERICK, Md., Sept. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- RoosterBio, Inc, a biotechnology market disrupter and leading supplier of innovative human mesenchymal stem/stromal cell (hMSC) biomanufacturing ...

TAMPA, Fla. (BLOOM) — Scientists at the University of Fukui in Japan have identified a significant link between specific fatty acid metabolites found in umbilical cord blood and the symptoms of autism ...

Umbilical cord and placenta blood, often referred to as “cord blood,” is the blood that is collected from the umbilical and placental tissue at birth. Once stored in “banks,” its stem cells can be ...