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 ...

An endangered orca​ in Washington state was seen carrying her dead newborn calf in what appears to be an effort to revive it.

A second endangered orca this year was seen carrying its dead newborn in Washington waters, highlighting the species' ongoing crisis.

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 ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2018, Kristen Miller, a high school social studies teacher from Cleveland, had an uneventful pregnancy for the first two trimesters — “textbook perfect,” ...