How the pelvis, and not bipedalism, gave humans their narrow hips
The anatomy of our pelvis is a result of an evolutionary trade-off, but perhaps it's not the one we thought
Meet Virginia Apgar, the unlikely anesthesiologist who saved newborn babies
Apgar's simple, standardized score helped decrease the startlingly high infant mortality rate
Birth and cell death may go hand in hand
Altering the timing of birth changes patterns of cell death in mouse brains
The placental microbiome may not exist, but the scientific method is real
Researchers from Cambridge have found that run-of-the-mill sample contamination likely led to the discovery of a placental microbiome
70 years ago, physicians used a heart defect to fix blue babies
The Blalock-Taussig shunt solves one congenital heart disease by recreating a second one
When do you meet your first microbes?
Bacteria could get into the uterus through the vagina, through the GI tract, or even invasive medical procedures.