A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and collaborating institutions reveals that maternal COVID-19 ...

Background: Preeclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy-induced syndrome associated with increased maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. The major fetal consequences of PE are intrauterine growth ...

Dr. Gil Mor discusses sex-specific placental responses and long-term immune alterations from prenatal virus exposure.

A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health has developed a new ultrasound technique to monitor the placenta for impaired fetal blood flow early in pregnancy. The technique, ...

WHAT: A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health has developed a new ultrasound technique to monitor the placenta for impaired fetal blood flow early in pregnancy. The technique ...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected over 33.8 million people worldwide, claiming over one million lives. To date, thousands of ...

From left to right, the researchers Nerea San Martín González, Águeda Castro Quintas, Helena Palma Gudiel and Lourdes Fañanás Saura. Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women who developed gestational diabetes had more visceral fat in the second trimester and greater placental ...

It is common knowledge that smoking is linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Now, researchers find that this fact extends even before birth. Mariona Bustamante, a molecular epidemiologist at ...

Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...