A new way of using umbilical cord blood for treating blood diseases could make the treatment more accessible to patients who ...

One day, there could be a new test to screen for type 1 diabetes, now that scientists have found markers in the blood of the umbilical cords of children who were later diagnosed with the disease. In ...

It's estimated that around 13.4 million infants are born prematurely around the world, and preterm birth complications are a major cause of mortality for these babies. Preterm births can happen both ...

Disease-free survival of 96% with no severe GVHD in acute leukemia, other blood cancers ...

Q: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know how that works and ...

Your early life may quietly set the stage for developing Type 1 diabetes, an increasingly common, lifelong condition that can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers identified five proteins in umbilical cord blood that could signal early-onset sepsis in preterm ...

Dr. Dennis Costakos has earned a reputation for asking the right questions and then doing research to provide a new approach to improve medical care. Costakos, a Franciscan Skemp physician who cares ...