Two Articles published Online First by The Lancet suggest that cleansing of the umbilical cord during and after birth could reduce sepsis and mortality in babies in resource-poor countries. In the ...

Very low birth weight infants are at high risk for nosocomial infection specially due to higher survival rates related to advances in intensive care units. Prolonged hospital stay, instrumentalization ...

A woman in the New York City area appears to have been cured of an HIV infection, Wall Street Journal reported, providing a roadmap that could help researchers who are developing gene therapies to ...

The umbilical cord is a three-vessel cord that provides nutrients and oxygen to your baby while they're in the uterus. Usually, the cord doesn’t have any issues, but there are several conditions that ...

A previous systematic review found no evidence that doing nothing but keeping the umbilical stump clean was harmful to the infant (Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;[3]:CD001057). No systemic ...

DHULIKHEL, Nepal, March 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - S angita Shrestha desperately waits in a hospital bed to see the baby girl she has just delivered. In the next room, a nurse applies a gel to ...

When you give birth, the baby is delivered first. The umbilical cord then comes out after your baby. In rare cases, the umbilical cord prolapses, which means it falls out from its normal position. The ...

Monica Mueni, a 75-year-old mother of eight, had been using cow dung to cure her children’s umbilical cord after birth for years. This is just one of the many traditional ways used back in the day to ...

Umbilical cord prolapse is a medical emergency. It happens when the umbilical cord slips through your cervix, the opening to your uterus, and into your vagina. It puts your baby at great risk of ...