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 ...

While the girls were in the NICU, Ruiz rented a house nearby to be close to the hospital. While she was in the hospital and ...

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 ...

Your placenta is the lifeline between you and your baby while it's growing inside you. Once it's served that purpose, it's usually discarded. But you can choose to do any number of things with it ...

Placental function plays a crucial role in fetal development, as it serves as the primary interface for delivery of nutrients and oxygen from the mother to fetus. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has ...

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 ...

Most pathologists, he added, “don’t see the human side of this at all. I deal with patients every day. This is very real to me.” The human placenta does a lot of work for the fetus; it is, effectively ...