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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They routinely transferred only 70 ml. of plasma from the original to the transfer bag, thus restoring the hematocrit of the residual blood to normal, for issue as whole blood. This procedure ...

Your blood sugar goal may vary depending on whether you have diabetes, which type of diabetes you have, and whether you’re pregnant. Keeping track of your blood sugar is a key part of diabetes ...

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.

II features sculptural works that use original vintage comic books. The comic books are laser-cut to accommodate medical tubes used for collecting the blood of an HIV+ undetectable long-term survivor ...

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 ...