In a longitudinal study published in Scientific Reports, researchers investigate the effect of maternal physical activity on the scale and growth of the yolk sac during early pregnancy. To this end, maternal physical activity was found to affect human yolk sac development, with this effect depending on gestational age and embryonic sex. Study: Maternal physical activity […]
Based on a study recently published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, maternal morbidity and mortality rates in Texas through the last twenty years have greater than doubled from 1999 (10.3 deaths per 100,000 births) to 2019 (21.9 deaths per 100,000 births). This rate not only exceeds the national average (17.4 in 2018), […]
Tulane University, Ochsner Health and the community nonprofit RH Impact have been awarded a seven-year, $16.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to ascertain a research center of excellence focused on finding solutions to deal with Louisiana’s disproportionately high maternal mortality rate. The brand new Southern Center for Maternal Health Equity shall be […]