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Placenta: The overlooked organ with a lifelong impact on your health

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Placenta: The overlooked organ with a lifelong impact on your health

The placenta is an incredible organ that we grow for a short period of time, yet it has a surprising long-term influence on our health. Researchers are now developing tools to spot placenta problems and improve the lives of future babies

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Giving birth at an older age is linked to a longer life in women

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Rare embryo mutations may increase risk of developing schizophrenia

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, CA - May 26:Aysha-Samon Stokes and her daughter Nyla, 6, watch Midwife Allegra Hill and student Midwife Maryam Karim take the heartbeat of two-week-old Nikko during a postpartum visit to the South Los Angeles birthing center, Kindred Space LA, on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 where he was born on Mothers Day night. With fear of another C-section and fear of the high mortality rate in the hospitals among women like herself Stokes found her midwife in her third trimester. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

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The maternal death rate in the US has more than doubled since 1999

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Giving birth aged 23 to 32 cuts risk of some congenital conditions

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How new fetal therapies are treating genetic conditions in the womb

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Exposing C-section babies to vaginal fluid boosts their development

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Photo of a young pregnant woman getting ready in the bathroom for the upcoming day; the daily routine of an expectant mother.

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We finally know what causes morning sickness during pregnancy

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A pregnant woman walking in Hong Kong in March 2020

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Does covid-19 affect pregnancies and do the vaccines reduce any risks?

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Brain surgery before birth fixes abnormal blood vessel in fetus

A vein of Galen malformation is a condition that can place pressure on a fetus’s heart and lungs and deprive the brain of oxygen. Surgeons corrected this type of blood vessel problem in a fetus for the first time

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Stress makes us age faster but the effects can be reversed

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Genetic conflict with the fetus influences when women give birth

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Stunning image shows the developing nervous system in a chick embryo

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Miscarriages may be more likely to occur with slow developing embryos

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