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 ...

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

Dr. Boelens said that he had worked with privately banked cord blood about 15 times, usually in cases in which families banked a second child’s cord blood with the hope of treating an older sibling.

Signs of an umbilical knot. Most knots don’t show up on ultrasound imaging. This is because the cord is long, and as your baby grows, they may cover part of the cord during ultrasound viewing.

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 ...

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 practice, known as umbilical cord milking, is relatively unknown and not without some controversy. But if its promise holds up, it may help protect some of the most at-risk newborns ...

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 ...

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 ...