After your baby is born, the umbilical cord is no longer needed. It is clamped and cut, leaving a short stump. A nurse removes the clamp after 1 or 2 days. The stump will fall off within about 1 ...

Now he is suggesting that I have a c-section tomorrow. One of the reasons being that the umbilical cord might be short and that my pelvis is too small. The problem is that he has never done an internl ...

Torres had intensive chemotherapy to control the disease in the short-term. For a better long ... child’s stem cells taken from the umbilical cord so this is not taken from the actual baby ...

A laboratory specialist is leading a new programme using umbilical cord donations to advance cancer and regenerative medicine ...

In short, the AMA and the AAP recommend against ... blood because it uses cells left behind in the blood in the umbilical cord and placenta. Cord blood transplants don't need the strict match ...

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 ...

Deferring clamping of the umbilical cord allows blood to flow from the placenta ... For this analysis, deferred clamping was split into three groups: 'short deferral' (15–45 seconds), 'medium ...

Compared to early cord clamping (ECC), umbilical cord milking (UCM) in non-vigorous infants had short-term benefits without any long-term adverse impacts on neurodevelopment, according to the ...

I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know how that works and if there are already uses for cord blood.