Mean age of fetal circulation investigation was 34.1±4.0 weeks. Results: ... There is a relation between umbilical flow and cerebral circulation before and after birth. ...

Spina bifida is a birth defect that happens during the development of the central nervous system early on in pregnancy, and it affects one in ever 2,000 births each year.

As one of the world’s first fetal surgeons, Diana Farmer has long been focused on the smallest of patients.She specializes in treating birth defects inside and outside of the womb, treating congenital ...

Research into the human microbiome over the past few years has suggested the trillions of bacteria living inside our guts may be playing a role in everything from cancer and autoimmune disease, to ...

Fetal surgery is a type of procedure done on your baby while they are still in your uterus. Learn more about it here. ... doing so before birth can help them develop better in the long run.

A toddler is thriving after doctors in the U.S. and Canada used a novel technique to treat her before she was born for a rare genetic disease that caused the deaths of two of her sisters.

It is more than a little puzzling to me why the Rev. Robert A. Winter, in his Oct. 31 letter, “Issue 1 is grounded in basic human values,” states that “the kind of life we can legitimately ...

Some of the leading experts in fetal cardiology are based at Children's National Health System in D.C. They can detect and even treat heart problems in babies weeks before birth.One of those ...

An RNA platform successfully predicted fetal growth restriction within the second trimester of pregnancy, independent of other risk factors, according to a presentation at The Pregnancy Meeting ...

To cure genetic diseases in the womb, #CRISPR base editing, now successfully done in fetal mice, may be an alternative to replacing an entire defective gene.

Lewkowitz, MD, MPHS and Ayala, MD, are Assistant Professors, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island The fall of Roe v ...