In a lotus birth, it's not about a specific position or posture during delivery, but rather a birth without cutting the ...

You may think of your belly button as just a scar from your umbilical cord, but it's actually a bustling hub for bacteria. A ...

In the fall of 1988, Matthew Farrow, a 5-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder, received the world’s first transplant of umbilical-cord blood from a newborn sibling. It worked: Farrow was cured.

Cord blood banking involves the collection and storage of stem cells derived from the blood of a newborn's umbilical cord immediately after birth. The reason is its potential life-saving abilities ...

Umbilical cord abnormalities — of which there are roughly seven categories, ranging from cord cysts to entanglements to knots — may account for anywhere from 10 percent to more than 25 percent ...

Umbilical cord blood banking is useful due to its role in transplantation. Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) possess the ability to reconstitute any blood cell type, offering the potential to treat ...

The patient has shown no signs of HIV infection since she stopped treatment for the virus in October 2020, following a transplant of umbilical-cord stem cells containing a mutation that blocks HIV ...

In the second part of Jessa Duggar's birth story video, she revealed which of her family members were present for her birth ...

The importance of new-life navel care cannot be overestimated, according to Ohio veterinarian Taylor Engle. He said failing ...