Danica McKellar candidly opened up about eating her placenta after giving birth to her son, Darco, sparking an influx of support from fellow moms.

Scientists are uncovering how the placenta, long viewed as a temporary pregnancy organ, acts as a powerful biological predictor of lifelong health, linking prenatal environments to future risks of ...

Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) disorders are among the most serious complications in contemporary obstetrics, associated with severe haemorrhage, surgical ...

To date, there are no regenerative stem cell products commercially available to treat diseases in utero. In-utero treatment of myelomeningocele, the most severe form of spina bifida, with allogeneic, ...

Prof Eric Jauniaux explains the causes of placenta previa and placenta accreta spectrum I am the lead developer of the Royal College of Gynaecologists’ Green-top guidelines on placenta previa and ...

Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually, posing a major cause of maternal death. Yet why it happens is still not ...

What are some of the more common complications of pregnancy? Although most pregnancies are uncomplicated, sometimes, unplanned events happen. The following are some of the more common pregnancy ...

WHEN NON-INVASIVE prenatal testing (NIPT) arrived in 2011, it transformed pregnancy. With a simple blood test, scientists could now sweep a mother’s bloodstream for scraps of placental DNA, uncovering ...

A new blood test has an 80% accuracy in predicting preterm preeclampsia, according to a study published today, Feb. 12, in the journal Nature Medicine. The condition, which results in over 70,000 ...

CBD and THC during pregnancy may harm fetal growth and brain development, according to new research. Scientists found changes in placenta function and offspring behavior, challenging the perception ...

FETUSES with congenital heart disease (CHD), especially single ventricle (SV) CHD, exhibit reduced mid-gestational placental blood flow, increased placental maternal vascular malperfusion (MVM) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Higher placental growth factor was associated with a higher Clinical Dementia Rating score. The biomarker may be ...