When you're pregnant, any amount of vaginal bleeding is cause for concern. If the bleeding occurs during the second trimester, your doctor will perform an ultrasound to see if you have a condition ...

It’s 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning in a hospital conference room, and this not your average birthday planning committee. Here’s the invitation list for the multidisciplinary meeting to plan this ...

A patchwork of genomic differences in the placenta may explain the organ’s “live fast, die young” strategy and its connections to cancer. In 2008, while the medical resident Sam Behjati was doing his ...

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Serotonin is only small — it has just 10 carbon, 12 hydrogen, 2 nitrogen and 1 oxygen atoms. But it has powerful effects when in the right place at the right time. Receptors for serotonin are the ...

Placentas get kind of a bum rap. This is possibly because of all the hoopla about the mothers who blend their placentas into smoothies and eat them, which is not a thing most women do. Even beyond the ...

Risk of placenta accreta rises in women with multiple C-sections. Barbara George, who nearly died of placenta accrete with the birth of her daughter Hannah, is outraged over the rising cesarean rate.

Astrud Tuck receives funding from the Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation. An incredibly complex and important organ in its own right, the placenta is only found in mammals. And how it functions ...

Some women eat the placenta, but few have tried turning it into a keepsake. Nov. 10, 2009— -- After the baby is born and the cooing in the delivery room begins, parents may do a variety of things ...

Now that the star is considering baby number three, here are all the facts about this potentially serious — but rare — condition A version of this article originally appeared on Health.com. You aren’t ...