Doctors from throughout the country posted a public letter this week, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure health care ...

The placenta, a temporary organ that appears during pregnancy to help support a growing fetus, didn’t look as it should.

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A mother whose baby died after medical staff missed opportunities to save her has called for a public inquiry into an NHS ...

Fetal movements were normal. The patient had had 2 previous emergency cesarean sections at 26 and 30 weeks, respectively, as a result of placental abruption. In the current pregnancy, there were ...

Placental abruption. In about 1% of pregnancies, the placenta detaches from the wall of the uterus before or during labor, and blood pools between the placenta and uterus. Placental abruption can ...

How Does Preterm Labor Affect the Mother? Preterm births usually happen because of complications from infection or abruption. Abruption is a medical condition where the placenta detaches from (or ...

two from diabetes and two from placental abruption. It also attributes nine deaths to motor vehicle accidents and four to suicide. Rank out of 46: #34 Number of births: 50,464 Death rate ...

Background: Efforts to elucidate risk factors for placental abruption are imperative due to the severity of complications it produces for both mother and fetus, and its contribution to preterm birth.

Local motorcyclist Brandon Causey has been giving his family signs of hope in recent days after being found unconscious on ...

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy condition marked by high blood pressure that can be minor, but can also be deadly. If women know ...