Modern medicine has begun to recognize that the placenta can have significant medical and scientific value even after childbirth.

Recognition of three basic placenta types by Otto Grosser over a century ago has proven its worth: non-invasive, moderately invasive or highly invasive. In contrast to the invasive types, no breakdown ...

“How do you know whether a mother will deliver preterm or not? Well, the short answer is, we don't know,” said Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, an immunologist who studies obstetrics and gynecology at Washington ...