Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how proteins expressed in umbilical cord blood at birth evolve during ...

Delaying umbilical cord clamping allows vital nutrients to transfer to newborns, improving iron levels. WHO recommends ...

The Cleveland Clinic describes the vital role of a healthy placenta. It's a temporary organ that forms in the uterus, or womb ...

It's estimated that around 13.4 million infants are born prematurely around the world, and preterm north complications are a ...

This is due to the design of the placenta. The maternal uterine blood vessels and the fetal umbilical blood vessels run in parallel and oxygen is exchanged passively. Consequently, fetal oxygen ...

Consider the poignant story of your baby's umbilical cord. For nine months it faithfully served as your baby's lifeline. It provided him with oxygen, with nutrients, with life itself. Now ...

The use of umbilical arterial catheters (UACs ... embolism, vasospasm, blood vessel perforation, hemorrhage, infection, and hypertension. [2,3] The potential for complications has resulted ...