EXPLAINER: Pregnancy complications under abortion spotlight
Serious pregnancy complications are rare in the United States but they still affect thousands of women each year.
Aug 22, 2022
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Serious pregnancy complications are rare in the United States but they still affect thousands of women each year.
Aug 22, 2022
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While blood from a newborn's umbilical cord was once considered a waste product, it's now known that it contains stem cells. These cells can be used for cord blood transplants, including for specific genetic and hematologic ...
Jul 26, 2022
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Water births provide "clear benefits" for healthy mums and their newborns, with fewer interventions and complications during and after the birth than standard care, as well as higher levels of satisfaction for the mum, finds ...
Jul 5, 2022
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Clinical researchers at Hannover Medical School (MHH) have succeeded for the first time in stopping the usually fatal course of pulmonary hypertension thanks to a novel therapeutic approach. A three-year-old girl suffering ...
Jun 10, 2022
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One of the most common causes of disability or death in newborns is a lack of oxygen or blood flow in the brain during labor or delivery.
May 11, 2022
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Premature babies who develop abnormalities like autism and cerebral palsy as teenagers have subtle differences in brain structure that can be detected on quantitative MRI (qMRI), according to a new study in the journal Radiology. ...
Apr 26, 2022
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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm expecting my first baby and feeling a range of emotions, from anticipation to apprehension, for labor and delivery. A friend suggested that I create a birth plan to identify my wishes for labor and after ...
Apr 20, 2022
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Very premature babies need extra oxygen and mechanical intervention to breathe, but this damages their lungs, causing a chronic lung disease called bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). These babies have smaller and weaker lungs ...
Mar 30, 2022
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I don a gown, gloves and a mask to enter the hospital room of a new mother who is sick with COVID-19.
Mar 21, 2022
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New research suggests the coronavirus can invade and destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths in infected women.
Feb 10, 2022
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