Your baby’s umbilical cord is his lifeline, connecting him to your placenta. Any abnormality in the way it's attached to the placenta can put a pregnancy at higher risk of complications. A velamentous ...

After the baby has been delivered, the umbilical cord is clamped and about 2 to 3 ounces of the blood it contains are collected. The blood is then transferred to a specially prepared bag and sent ...

Doctors might be able to predict a newborn's long-term health outlook, by analyzing their umbilical cord blood, a new study ...

ViaCord gives families the opportunity to store stem cells from their babies' umbilical cord blood and cord tissue in case they ever need it for a transplant or regenerative medicine research.