For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A woman has had a smooth pregnancy all along; she keenly adhered to clinic visits, an ...

Can the placenta predict lifelong health? Research shows that placental function may influence future disease risk.

The placenta plays a central role in fetal development by regulating nutrient transfer, hormonal signaling, and immune interactions, thereby shaping lifelong health outcomes. Evidence from ...

Presented at the Combined Clinical Meeting at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, June 1, 1938. From the Department of Obstetrics, Harvard Medical School, and the Boston ...