Texas Children's Hospital North Austin Campus performs surgery to remove baby's lung mass during birth while still attached ...

A document the Department of Health and Human Services distributed to members of Congress to justify recent changes to ...

Nurse navigator Barbie McCartney sees twins Suttyn and Emersyn and parents Megan Ruiz and Demario Miller a year after the ...

The placenta has two different sides, the maternal side and the fetal side. These are held together by outgrowths, called anchoring villi, from the maternal component. The placenta is surrounded by a ...

Figure 1 illustrates theoretical changes in placental hemodynamics that could occur in response to different maternal, placental, and fetal conditions, potentially leading to chronic fetal hypoxemia.

With her initial test of her placenta-on-a-chip model, Hashemi determined that a steady if small amount of caffeine made it over to the “fetal” side after putting in a much greater amount on ...

Summary: Fetal placental macrophages can serve as indicators of fetal brain microglia health, which are crucial for brain development.Immune activation in pregnant women, such as from infections or ...

Immune activation in a pregnant woman can have negative effects on the development of fetal brain microglia—or macrophage immune cells in the brain—and even lead to neurodevelopmental ...

W hen Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy.. The autopsy, which pushed Parast to pursue ...

Poor nutrition, smoking, cocaine use, chronic hypertension, anemia, and diabetes may result in fetal growth restriction and may cause problems for the development of the placenta. Fetal growth ...