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I thought my postpartum bleeding was normal. Turns out, I had a retained placenta
When I went into labor with my son, the experience was nothing like I'd come to ... my placenta. I had a retained placenta – and the doctors tried everything to get it out "The diagnosis of ...
'My eye was saved by a placenta after acid attack'
A donated placenta has been used to help save a man's eye after an acid attack. Acid was squirted into Paul Laskey's face ...
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The Ephemeral Life of the Placenta
Moffett, a doctor and pathologist by training, didn’t set out to study the placenta. In the 1980s ... Mariko Horii trained as an obstetrician in Japan before coming to the University of California, ...
Healing power: Here's why doctors are pushing for more birth tissue donations
Birth tissue donation is part of a growing statewide program with thousands of participants run through Tennessee Donor Services.
Stealth virus: How Zika builds tunnels to covertly infect cells of the placenta
Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, ...
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'My eye was saved by a placenta after acid attack'
Paul Laskey's eye has been saved with the help of a donated placenta A donated placenta has ... At Newcastle's RVI, emergency medics worked to flush out as much of the acid as possible.