A lotus birth is not a special position or posture during delivery, but rather a birth without cutting the umbilical cord. This means the newborn remains connected to the placenta via the umbilical ...

Though still at an early stage, experts said the use of cord blood could help address India’s chronic shortage of donor blood and provide safer transfusion options for vulnerable preterm infants. The ...

ACCRA, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The 14th batch of the Chinese medical team in Ghana has successfully carried out surgeries to save two Ghanaian orphans from umbilical hernia at the China-Ghana Friendship ...

Extension cords are a good way to reach those out of reach outlets, but it's dangerous to plug certain devices into them. Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She received her bachelor's degree in ...

A man alleged to have bashed and killed the mother of his children at a Townsville home has applied for bail in Supreme Court. Jason Cord McNamara, who is alleged to have now killed the mother of his ...

Equine Performance Labs (EPL) is proud to announce the publication of a pivotal peer-reviewed study in BMC Medicine ("Cryopreserved equine umbilical cord tissue allograft characterization and ...

1 First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China 2 Academy of Medical Sciences, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China Background: Spinal cord injury (SCI) often leads ...

CANTON, Ohio (WOIO) - An air conditioner cord sparked a large house fire in Canton early Friday morning. According to a release from Canton Fire, firefighters were dispatched to the 800 block of High ...

CANTON, Ohio (WJW) — A home in Canton will likely have to be razed because of heavy fire damage caused by an overheated cord, according to officials. The fire ignited shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Friday ...

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has issued new guidelines on deferred umbilical cord clamping in preterm babies, based on evidence showing that such delays save lives.

Israel is set to carry out the world’s first ever implant of a lab-grown spinal cord using a patient’s own cells, in a medical breakthrough offering a potential cure for paralysis, Tel Aviv University ...

Israel is preparing to perform the world’s first spinal cord transplant using lab-grown tissue created from a patient’s own cells, in a breakthrough that could potentially restore movement to people ...