However it concluded that “no significant difference in maternal iron levels was ... There might be even side effects of ...

Background: Previous studies of maternal risk factors for abnormal placental growth have focused on placental weight and placental ratio as measures of placental growth. We sought to identify ...

Changes in placental function are important because the placenta acts as an intermediate between the maternal environment and the fetus. They found that several psychiatric disorder-related genes are ...

Mariona Bustamante, a molecular epidemiologist at Barcelona Institute for Global Health, and her colleagues found that when pregnant women smoke, the habit impacts the placenta with consequences for ...

While it’s still pretty rare — placenta accreta occurs in 3 in 1,000 pregnancies, according to the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine — it’s on the rise. In the 1970s the incidence was ...