Scientists from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and ...

Banking a baby’s umbilical cord blood was once seen as a reasonable way to protect their future health, but much of that potential has turned out to be mere hype ...

This revealed potential irregularities in a total of not more than 1,700 umbilical cord blood samples regarding compliance with medical law requirements, which could lead to these samples being ...

While umbilical cord knots happen in less than 1% of pregnancies, if your baby has one, you may wonder what it means. The umbilical cord attaches to the placenta, which is an organ that develops ...

And it’s all thanks to stem cells from a baby’s umbilical cord that was frozen 16 years ... temperature and a doctor noticed that he had an irregular heartbeat. Gunner, from Highley, Shrops ...

even in their doctors’ offices — urging them to bank the blood in their baby’s umbilical cord and gain “peace of mind.” Private banks claim that the stem cells inside the blood are a ...

Doctors might be able to predict a newborn's long-term health outlook, by analyzing their umbilical cord blood, a new study says. Genetic clues found in cord blood can offer early insight into ...

The medical team must quickly cut the umbilical cord and then rush the baby to aid. But taking a few seconds to squeeze blood from the cord into an infant’s abdomen before cutting the cord could ...

In the first few minutes after a baby is born, the baby’s umbilical cord (which carries oxygen and nutrients from the placenta to the growing fetus) is cut and usually discarded. But many people ...

Shortly after a baby is born, doctors clamp the umbilical cord linking the infant to the placenta, which is still inside the mother’s uterus, and then cut it. New research shows that if doctors ...

To shed light on the possible causes of autism, researchers from the University of Fukui investigated the link between polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in umbilical cord blood samples and autism ...