After giving birth, your placenta will deliver within 30 to 60 minutes, but you may be wondering how this happens. Placenta delivery depends on if your baby was delivered vaginally or via C-section.

If you're pregnant, you might wonder what the placenta does and what factors can affect the placenta. Get the facts about this important fetal organ. The placenta is an organ that develops in your ...

The life of billions of people inhabiting Earth is owed to a temporary organ that supported and nourished them in a mother’s womb. The placenta, or afterbirth, is considered sacred by some cultures, ...

In addition, recent studies on the effect of amniotic fluid on the blood-clotting mechanism 1 have suggested that amniotic fluid entering the maternal circulation in amounts insufficient to cause an ...

Yellow coloring in this microscope image is the mark of successful delivery of gene therapy via nanoparticles into placental cells from monkeys (each marked by blue-colored nuclei) and expression of a ...

When 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 perinatal ...