The placenta is an amazing structure ... with chorionic villi extending into them. Maternal and fetal cells intermingle in the maternal side of these spaces and the umbilical cord is formed ...

Maternal blood samples were obtained before cesarean section. The umbilical cord was double clamped near the placenta and near ... was not reflected on the fetal side (in neither the umbilical ...

Unlike genetics or age, smoking is a risk factor for numerous diseases that we can actually do something about. By quitting, ...

The condition, which results in over 70,000 maternal deaths and 500,000 fetal deaths each year worldwide, has long been hard to predict. This makes proactive treatment challenging, according to one of ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol — a necessary hormone for fetal development — and this would affect the baby's development ...

Mariona Bustamante, a molecular epidemiologist at Barcelona Institute for Global Health, and her colleagues found that when pregnant women smoke, the habit impacts the placenta with consequences for ...

Researchers say understanding how Zika virus spreads through the human placenta and reaches the fetus is critical to prevent or control the infection.

The practitioner should err on the side of safety and administer ... Mini RhIG Suspected abruption placenta Dose dependent upon no. of fetal RBCs in maternal circulation as determined by the ...