For certain life-threatening health conditions, the cure may lie closer than we think... sometimes as close as the umbilical cord. Cord blood, the nutrient-rich blood left in the placenta and ...

A short delay in umbilical code clamping may reduce the risk of death before hospital discharge at very preterm birth. Immediate neonatal care can be provided with the cord intact, allowing cord ...

Researchers identified five biomarkers in umbilical cord blood that could indicate early-onset sepsis in preterm infants and ...

Cord blood is the blood in your baby's umbilical cord and your placenta. It houses potentially lifesaving cells called stem ...