Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage might. The placenta is an organ created during pregnancy that provides ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The ...

Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually ...

When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The autopsy, which pushed Parast to pursue perinatal ...

Pregnancy can feel like a miraculous blessing, which it truly is. Every stage of development requires a delicate balance of your hormones, whether it is heartbeat, movement or each growth milestone.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marley Dewey, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) Eating a ...