However, experts said this doesn't necessarily mean that home births are dangerous. Many of the babies and mothers had conditions that put them at higher risk of complications, such as preeclampsia (high blood pressureduring birth) or breech position (when the baby is feet first instead of hea...
Post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) immediately after giving birth is the largest threat to new mothers in high-income countries. An Australian study, featured in the open access journalBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, shows that an increasing number of women suffered severe problems arising from blood loss ...
high baseline levels of activated caspase-3 correlate with negative cancer prognoses.129 Although these results are interesting yet they need to be treated with some caution.129 For instance, the authors frequently used very large radiation doses (6–12 Gy) compared with those used in most ...
Danger signals or DAMPs have a very important role in enhancing cancer cell immunogenicity over physiological apoptosis.13Their spatiotemporally defined emission provides the immune system with sequential or simultaneous ‘pulses’ of ‘impending danger’,1thereby keeping the immune system in a pro-inflam...
I have never felt more alone than during my pregnancy and in my new life as a mom. For 36 weeks of pregnancy I’d lived in fear: fear of this all-too-late baby growing in my core, with or without my help, really. Fear that my faith would crumble. Fear that I’d find out that...