The liquid world of fetal development provides a rich source of nutrition and protection tailored to meet the needs of the ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in the United States evaluated the effects of maternal coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic-associated stress and fetal ...

Dept. of Ped. Res., N.Y.S. Inst. Basic Res. Ment. Retard., Dept. Ped., Mt. Sinai Hosp. Sch. Med., New York ...

Shoulder dystocia (SD) is a serious obstetric emergency that occurs when the fetal shoulders fail to deliver after the head has emerged during the second stage of labor. This condition can result in ...

Like the hands that pull the strings at a marionette puppet show, our resident microbes influence the day-to-day running of virtually all of our biological systems. For instance, host-microbe ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the mature human newborn infant, only pancreatic α-amylase shows a very low but highly inducible activity. Other digestive enzymes, ...

A study in mice has discovered that the presence of Bifidobacterium breve bacteria in the mother's gut during pregnancy promotes healthy brain development in the fetus. The fetal brain development of ...

Physicians are trained in the ethics of medicine from the first year of school. As a second-year medical student about to take the boards, I feel the need to insert some medical facts into the ...

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

Tracing the development of a human being. Removal of a small glob of living tissue from a human body requires a surgeon who knows how, what, when, and where to cut, and the consent of the patient to ...

North Dakota schools would be required to show students high-quality video of how a human fetus develops in each week of pregnancy under a bill Senate lawmakers approved during a vote Wednesday. The ...