Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea ...
Current guidelines recommend that pregnant people receive a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-;which typically causes mild, cold-like symptoms in most adults but can be deadly for ...
OpEd: COVID vaccinations have been observed to cut childhood COVID-19 hospitalizations in half. And yes, vaccinations are not free of complications, but they are a much better plan than getting the ...
The usual way in which the fetus is infected is by transplacental spread after maternal infection in which the organism circulates in the mother's blood. These infections, acquired in utero ...
Animal studies show that exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or other persistent organochlorine compounds can disrupt thyroid hormone homeostasis. In some reports dietary exposures to ...
More information: Tamiris Azamor et al, Transplacental SARS-CoV-2 protein ORF8 binds to complement C1q to trigger fetal inflammation, The EMBO Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s44318-024-00260-9 ...
Such patients have been clearly distinguished from newborn infants with transitory thrombocytopenia secondary to transplacental passage of maternal antiplatelet antibody, 1,2 in whom a genetic ...