Doctors Explain "Decidual Casts," AKA Shedding Your Entire Uterine Lining in One Go
A "decidual cast" occurs when a womb sheds its lining in one go, rather than across several days. Here, a doctor explains why ...
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Can Researchers Find Remedies for the Problems Created by High-Altitude Pregnancies?
In people not adapted to life at altitude, the sparse oxygen can impair fetal growth, causing issues that can last a lifetime ...
Doctors Explain Why Some People Shed Their Entire Uterine Lining in One Go During Their Period
But, as noted, a decidual cast happens when the entire womb lining is shed at once: "Instead of shedding the decidual lining ...
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How Abortion Hurts Women
Placenta previa — where the placenta implants ... though one supported by numerous epidemiological studies and breast physiology — is that abortion itself can cause breast cancer.
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Causes of Death and Associated Conditions (Codac) - A Utilitarian Approach to the Classification of Perinatal Deaths
Malformations of the placenta and cord are coded in those ... (as in Ehler-Danlos syndrome), was exacerbated by the normal physiology of pregnancy (as in anti-phospholipid syndrome), or was ...
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Targeting Brain’s Drainage Pathways Rejuvenates Memory
Meningeal lymphatics-microglia axis regulates synaptic physiology. Cell. March 21, 2025. Funding: This work was supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), ...
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Elvira Isganaitis, MD, MPH
Her research uses novel “-omics” platforms such as transcriptomics, metabolomics and inaccessible human tissues such as umbilical cord blood, breast milk, and placenta to discover the mechanisms by ...