Placenta
The placenta is an organ that sustains and nourishes the fetus and is of both fetal and maternal origin. The placenta produce hormones and thus has an endocrine function. The placenta has an ...
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A woman has won a court fight to keep the placenta after her daughter's birth. She had planned to grind it up and ingest it as a way to fight postpartum depression, but now plans to bury it.Clark C...
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Taipei (dpa) - Taiwan health authorities said on Thursday that
they are investigating a suspected human case of mad-cow disease
contracted from taking injections of bovine p...
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A woman has won a court fight to keep the placenta after her daughter's birth. She had planned to grind it up and ingest it as a way to fight postpartum depression, but now plans to bury it.Clark C...
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Berlin (dpa) - About a quarter of all babies in Germany are
delivered with the help of a Caesarean section or c-section, a
surgical incision made through the mother's abdomi...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
MR. BUSH'S STEM CELL DIVERSION (The New York Times, New York)
The executive order on stem cells issued by President Bush
yesterday seeks ...
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The use of mercury in thermometers and other measuring devices will be banned in the European Union to protect the environment and human health.The European Parliament on Tuesday approved new rules...
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Police with cadaver-sniffing dogs, shovels and a backhoe dug Monday outside the home of a woman charged with killing her baby boy, widening a grim search that has so far turned up four tiny bodies....
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Police with cadaver-sniffing dogs, shovels and a backhoe dug Monday outside the home of a woman charged with killing her baby boy, widening a grim search that has so far turned up four tiny bodies....
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Police with cadaver-sniffing dogs, shovels and a backhoe dug Monday outside the home of a woman charged with killing her baby boy, widening a grim search that has turned up four tiny sets of remain...
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Experts examined genetic material from four tiny bodies discovered at the Ocean City home as investigators resumed digging Tuesday with bulldozers in a vacant lot next door.The woman who lives in t...
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Placenta
Mother wins fight to retrieve placenta
