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Strategies to Reduce Maternal Mortality; Meeting Summary
October 7th 2024
By Phyllis C. Leppert, CNM, MD, PhD Strategies that work in reducing maternal mortality in the United States were the focus of the September 19th vi...
Infectious Disease and Pregnancy Outcome: Contributions of Kristina Adams-Waldorf, MD
August 26th 2024
Infectious Disease and Pregnancy: Contributions of Kristina Adams-Waldorf, MD by Phyllis Leppert, MD, PhD For many years it has been known that bact...
Postpartum Period- Physiology
May 17th 2024
Introduction As soon as the placenta is separated from the uterine wall and is expelled, major maternal physiological changes occur. Right away estr...
Parturition: Understanding the Molecular Basis of Human Labor and Delivery
March 14th 2024
Introduction The physiology of human birth is awesome. Human birth, like births of all mammalian species, is a miracle that literally happens every...
Maternal Physiology
October 3rd 2023
Physiological Changes of Pregnancy. Human pregnancy lasts 266 days from fertilization or 280 days from the first day of the last menstrual period on...
Human Embryology: A brief introduction to the subject
August 24th 2023
Following implantation, the developing human zygote becomes an embryo and the formation of structures that eventually form organs and organ systems be...
Implantation and Decidualization
July 5th 2023
Introduction Implantation and decidualization are extremely important events in early pregnancy when the embryo and trophoblast cells embed in the e...
Human Fertilization
July 5th 2023
Introduction The joining together of the egg and sperm called fusion occurs over many hours. The concept of this process as being short in the minds...
Introduction to Informative Blogs on Events of Pregnancy and Birth
July 5th 2023
Written by Phyllis Leppert, MD, PhD By necessity, the life cycle of all living things on earth includes reproduction. The life of cells, and whole o...