Josh Duhamel recently opened up about the scary pregnancy complication that made the delivery of his and wife Audra Mari‘s ...

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When Ann O'Neill suffered a stillbirth in 2018, she was bewildered. She was already a mother to three healthy children and ...

The placenta has long been thought to produce serotonin during pregnancy. But in a new study, Yale researchers shatter the deep-rooted hypothesis—and show that the placenta doesn't produce serotonin ...

Indian researchers from ICMR-National Institute for Research on Women's Health and IIT Bombay have developed an indigenous 'placenta-on-chip' platform. This microphysiological system mimics the human ...

For most people, the placenta is simply viewed as a temporary organ that supports a baby during pregnancy and is discarded after delivery. However, modern medicine has begun to recognize that the ...

Researchers have found evidence that the placenta plays an important role in fetal brain development during the early stages of pregnancy. Experiments in mice show that during a key period, the ...

What could possibly go wrong? After all, Kim Kardashian, Alicia Silverstone and January Jones have done it. Well, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just reported a new possible risk ...

She’s the latest star to spill about chowing down on some form of her placenta after giving birth. The placenta is an organ that "looks like a piece of brisket," says Mary Jane Minkin, M.D., clinical ...

While placenta eating is controversial among doctors, stars have encapsulated, blended and cooked their placentas for the rumored benefits. (Photos may not be for the squeamish!) Christina Butan is ...

Expectant mothers should be told that the risk of placenta complications rises after a caesarean or fertility treatment, according to top doctors. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists ...