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Placenta Defined
An organ formed in the uterus during pregnancy that links the blood of the mother to the blood of the fetus; provides the fetus with nutrients and removes waste
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Illustrations by Bryan Christie
Published August 29, 2008, 11:01 am, Science News
If you think the roadwork in your town is bad, that’s nothing compared with the traffic trouble inside a cell. DNA gets repaved with chemicals and proteins almost constantly, maintaining a DNA-protein-chemical infrastructure called chromatin.
Bluetongue kills more than 300 sheep in Big Horn Basin;
Published August 28, 2008, 10:08 pm, High Plains Journal
Sheep producers in the Big Horn Basin and surrounding areas are urged to closely monitor their flocks for bluetongue, an infectious disease due to a potentially fatal virus.
Rush-Copley staff practices for birthing emergencies
Published August 28, 2008, 2:58 pm, The Beacon News
AURORA -- An alarm rang out on the Labor and Delivery floor at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora Tuesday.
NICE Issues Updated Guidance For Rhesus Negative Women During Pregnancy
Published August 28, 2008, 5:16 am, Medical News Today
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published guidance on the use of routine antenatal anti-D prophylaxis for rhesus D negative women in the NHS in England and Wales.
Brain growth and development in very premature or low-weight infants
Published August 27, 2008, 3:42 pm, News-Medical-Net
Brain development in infants who are born very prematurely is still incomplete. Factors that cause premature birth may have an impact on the development of the premature infant's brain both during pregnancy and later on after birth. A project conducted as part of the Academy of Finland Research Programme on Neuroscience (NEURO) is concerned to study brain growth and development invery premature ...
Pregnancy Situations Have Impact On Brain Development In Preterm Infants
Published August 27, 2008, 3:14 am, Medical News Today
Brain development in infants who are born very prematurely is still incomplete. Factors that cause premature birth may have an impact on the development of the premature infant's brain both during pregnancy and later on after birth.
State officials: Fear of infant deaths at Clovis hospital unfounded
Published August 23, 2008, 10:02 pm, Portales News-Tribune
Any fears sparked by a recent cluster of infant death reports at Plains Regional Medical Center are unfounded, according to the state health department.
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Published August 23, 2008, 6:25 am, The West Australian
Women who suffer extreme stress in the early stages of pregnancy are more likely to give birth to children who develop schizophrenia, a major international study shows.
Highlights From Biology Of Reproduction, September 2008
Published August 23, 2008, 3:13 am, Medical News Today
Proteomes to unravel gonadotrophs Although the basic developmental lineage of pituitary gonadotrophs is known, it has been harder to associate specific changes in gene expression with maturation due to the limited cell population. In an article on p. 546 of the September 2008 issue of Biology of Reproduction, Feng et al.
Pregnancy and you blog
Published August 22, 2008, 8:54 pm, Mayo Clinic
Before I ever got pregnant, I worried I would have pregnancies like my dear sister. I think she vomited from the time the sperm united with the egg until her placenta delivered. She never had relief, it just became more predictable.
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- Medicinal Uses of the Placenta - from Ronnie Falcão's Midwife Archives
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- Placenta recipes, eating your placenta
- Ingesting the placenta: Is it healthy for new moms? - USATODAY.com
- About Placenta Benefits.info - About Jodi Selander, Placenta Capsules, Placenta Encapsulation Services
- Making Placenta Essence
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Sat Aug 16
- Homebirth: Midwife Mutiny blog search: third stage of labor
- Placenta printing | Homebirth: Midwife Mutiny in South Australia
- The True Face of Birth: Someone loves me (not)
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