Ignorance is indeed a terrible thing. Giving birth as a whole is a bloody business, and life is inside that blood. The placenta has very serious implications for a man’s life. Blood from ...

Scientists from La Trobe University and the Hudson Institute have demonstrated that cells from placentas could have ...

Your placenta can be contaminated with viruses or bacteria. It can also contain toxins such as heavy metals that it filters out of your blood. Even processing your placenta by putting it in ...

Searching for a way to help her, surgeons turned to a rarely utilised tool: human placenta. They carefully ... including umbilical cord blood and amniotic fluid. It has issued consumer alerts ...

Because she lives in Alabama, a state with a strict abortion ban deadlocked by other states with similar restrictions, her ...

Marsupial and placental mammals diverged from a common ancestor more than 100 million years ago, and have evolved independently ever since. The two groups have different modes of reproduction ...

Different types of these medications probably make little to no difference in avoiding manual removal of the placenta and may not reduce the need for a blood transfusion. More research is needed to ...

All blood vessels are specifically structured to perform their function. For example, a capillary is microscopically thin to allow gases to exchange, the arteries are tough and flexible to cope ...

Antibiotics (germ-killing medicine) may have little to no effect on infection of the lining of the uterus after a retained placenta is manually removed, but the evidence is very uncertain.

In a revealing Genomic Press Interview published in Brain Medicine on October 29, 2024, Professor Vicki Clifton shares transformative discoveries about the placenta's unexpected influence on maternal ...

Inside you, there is an amazing network of blood vessels, the tubes that carry blood all around your body. Every part of the body needs oxygen, food and water. The blood vessels are a bit like ...