Q: My 25-year-old daughter is expecting my first grandchild, a girl, and she recently learned she has a two vessel umbilical cord. Her doctor did not explain this in any detail, only mentioning lower ...

Doctors in Germany could have achieved a breakthrough as they treated a young girl suffering from a severe pulmonary condition that can lead to heart failure, by applying umbilical cord stem cell ...

A newborn baby shocked doctors after they discovered a parasitic twin growing inside her in an extremely rare case after her ...

The coiled structure of the umbilical cord – the vital link between a baby and its mother during pregnancy – plays an important role in helping to keep babies healthy in the womb, according to new ...

Scientists may have uncovered a link between the risk of autism in children and fatty acids in umbilical cord blood, but one Yale professor told Newsweek more work needs to be done in the area. To ...

A girl who was critically ill with heart failure is doing well after receiving an experimental treatment made from umbilical cord stem cells, in the first case of its kind. The girl, from Germany, has ...

On the Cause of the Spiral Direction of the Umbilical Vessels, and the Convolutions of the Cord in the Human Foetus. By John Simpson, Esq, F H S C., L H.C.P., Surgeon ...

Umbilical cord pH levels < 7.2 may increase the risk for adverse neonatal outcomes, a Danish national cohort study shows. Severe acidosis has typically been thought to occur < 7.0. Reconsideration of ...