Here's everything you need to know about the umbilical cord – both during and after pregnancy.

Delaying umbilical cord clamping for 30 to 45 seconds among a group of preterm infants led to better motor function when compared to infants whose cords were clamped immediately, according to a new ...

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 ...

Deaths in the neonatal period, that is, the first 28 days of life, account for about 40% of all deaths in children younger than 5 years. 1 Achieving Millennium Development Goal 4, which stipulates a ...

To provide an increasing body of knowledge related to umbilical cord care, a literature review was conducted to study the evolution of umbilical cord care, to evaluate the scientific evidence used to ...

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 ...

Claire Marie Porter is a Pennsylvania-based health and science journalist whose work has been published in Scientific American, The Washington Post, NextCity, WIRED, and Elle, among other publications ...

For decades, experts have argued over when to clamp and cut a newborn’s umbilical cord after birth. Now, more health organizations are beginning to recommend delayed cord clamping. The American ...

You might just think about how your baby is growing when you go for prenatal scans, but there is a lot more going on inside. These scans also show how hard the umbilical cord works to feed your baby.