A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health has developed a new ultrasound technique to monitor the placenta for impaired fetal blood flow early in pregnancy. The technique, ...

A baby does not breathe air inside the womb. Instead, oxygen from the mother’s blood crosses the placenta and reaches the ...

A WPI researcher is leading a $2.9 million NIH-funded project to build a digital twin model that uses fetal blood flow data to detect coarctation of the aorta before birth.

A new review of MRI cohort studies shows that brain injury in newborns with congenital heart disease begins before surgery ...

Foetuses have evidence of particulate matter from air pollution in their lungs, brains and livers before they are even born, according to a study from the University of Aberdeen and Hasselt University ...

The nation’s first “Fetal Heart Center,” a dedicated space for diagnosing and treating congenital heart diseases in fetuses, is opening. This independent center provides one-stop management from ...

The court, quoting from one of the patents, noted that: The major proportion (generally >90%) of the extracellular DNA in material circulation is derived from the mother. This vast bulk of maternal ...