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Placenta: The overlooked organ with a lifelong impact on your health

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Placenta: The overlooked organ with a lifelong impact on your health

The placenta is an incredible organ that we grow for a short period of time, yet it has a surprising long-term influence on our health. Researchers are now developing tools to spot placenta problems and improve the lives of future babies

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Giving birth at an older age is linked to a longer life in women

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First over-the-counter birth control pill approved in the US

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Read an extract from Pod by Laline Paull

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Read an extract from Pod by Laline Paull

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Laline Paull on why she wrote Pod from the perspective of a dolphin

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Laline Paull on why she wrote Pod from the perspective of a dolphin

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Rare embryo mutations may increase risk of developing schizophrenia

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, CA - May 26:Aysha-Samon Stokes and her daughter Nyla, 6, watch Midwife Allegra Hill and student Midwife Maryam Karim take the heartbeat of two-week-old Nikko during a postpartum visit to the South Los Angeles birthing center, Kindred Space LA, on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 where he was born on Mothers Day night. With fear of another C-section and fear of the high mortality rate in the hospitals among women like herself Stokes found her midwife in her third trimester. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

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The maternal death rate in the US has more than doubled since 1999

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Giving birth aged 23 to 32 cuts risk of some congenital conditions

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Eating at night could boost your muscles and help you run for longer

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How new fetal therapies are treating genetic conditions in the womb

A genetic condition that sees children develop almost no teeth or sweat glands can now be treated by injecting a protein into the amniotic fluid, in just one of a number of new therapies that act before a child is even born

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Love + Science review: Reflecting on the rise of HIV

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Why have orcas been damaging and sinking so many boats?

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Exposing C-section babies to vaginal fluid boosts their development

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Experimental treatment could work against prion diseases like CJD

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