While your baby grows and matures over nine months of pregnancy, there’s something else growing in your uterus — and it’s responsible for keeping your baby alive. You’ve likely already heard of the ...

SPONSORED: University Health's program targeting placenta accreta turns high-risk pregnancies into healthy births.

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery the ...

Placenta previa occurs when the placenta settles unusually low in the uterus and lies near or directly over the cervix. Since the cervix is the pathway your baby uses during labour, a low placenta ...

"Our findings emphasize the similarities between placentas and tumors," said Ruoslahti. The scientists demonstrated that two peptides - chains of amino acids - originally used to target tumors ...