How does autism develop? While genetics play a major role, researchers know that environmental factors during pregnancy also ...

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A new report in Nature Communications shows that inflammatory aging of the placenta in women of older gestational age ...

How does autism develop? While genetics play a major role, researchers know that environmental factors during pregnancy also contribute to autism ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In early pregnancy, I found myself obsessively thinking about my placenta, the organ growing inside my body and nourishing my baby. Let me say that again: the entirely new organ that I was growing, ...

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 ...