A squeamish dad has left people baffled after confessing he refused to cut his baby's umbilical cord, despite being a first responder who deals with "blood and guts every day" at work. The dad ...

She added there were many families in their village who used such methods to cut and heal the umbilical cord of newborns. Khurshid, a cleaning worker at the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital ...

Banking a baby’s umbilical cord blood was once seen as a reasonable way to protect their future health, but much of that ...

To compare umbilical cord practices for preterm births ... indicate that when doctors wait to clamp and cut the cord they reduce the risk of death for preemies, nearly one million of whom die ...

Accordingly, delay in cutting the umbilical cord by a couple of minutes can have a beneficial effect that lasts for several months. In developed countries the tendency of doctors is to cut the ...

Two people in Pennsylvania have been arrested - after being accused of killing their newborn baby which police say had been thrown from a second-story window to the street below. Joshua Coleman ...