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NEWS ABOUT: placenta

placenta stories: 6 news summaries

Soccer Stars' Fave New Cure: Horse Placenta Massage

It's injected into injured area, then massaged

Nov 18, 09 9:30 PM CST
(Newser) - A treatment featuring horse placenta is becoming all the rage for injured European soccer stars, with two Liverpool players just the latest to seek treatment. The procedure, performed by a Serbian woman, sees the placenta—a leftover of the breeding process—injected into the hurt area, then massaged further into... More »

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Serbia • soccer • placenta • Liverpool • sports injuries • Arsenal • strange stuff • Marijana Kovacevic • Robin van Persie • horse placenta • cures

 Moms Can Pass Cancer 
 to Kids In Utero 

Mutation makes cancer cells 'invisible' to fetus' immune system

Oct 13, 09 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mothers pass myriad things to their unborn babies via the placenta, and scientists have found that cancer is among them. Researchers studied the case of a mother who died of leukemia soon after she gave birth, and whose child was diagnosed with cancer months later. Though the baby’s cancer... More »

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cancer • medical research • mutation • in utero • womb • leukemia • placenta • fetus • child • mother

 Researchers Extract 
 Stem Cells From 
 Placentas 

Effective harvesting procedure involves no risk to mother, child

Jun 24, 09 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have found an effective way to extract stem cells from placentas, where they’re abundant, after babies are born, the Guardian reports. Placentas contain up to five times as many of the key cells as cord blood, which has become a common source, and they may be more primitive,... More »

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stem cell research • stem cells • baby • birth • placenta • health research • mother

 Placenta Drip: 
 Fad or Fantastic? 

Afterbirth consumption risky, unproven to boost health

Dec 30, 08 2:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Feeling tired? A Tokyo clinic offers relaxation drips containing human placental extract as a pick-me-up. Long used by the Japanese to treat liver disease and menopause symptoms, placenta—with its immune molecules and nutrients that sustain the fetus during pregnancy—is symbolic, if not utterly scientific. The idea of a... More »

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Japan • aging • birth • placenta • fatigue • alternative medicine • experimental drugs

COMMENTARY

Stay-At-Home Mom, Indeed

Home-birthing 'strange and magical,' but trade-offs hurt—like Mo. law against midwives

Jun 27, 08 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Home-birthing isn’t only strange and magical—it requires some covert-operation skills, Madeline Holler writes in Babble. After finding she preferred an attending midwife in the birth of her first child, Holler found using one for her second to be illegal in Missouri, where she'd moved. As such, she found,... More »

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pregnancy • motherhood • mothers • felony • placenta • Missouri • midwife • home birth

New Moms Use Natural Remedy for Depression

Placenta thought to help regulate volatile hormones

Jul 22, 07 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - People think it's weird, and there's no research to prove it works, but new mothers  who've suffered from postpartum depression swear by it. The placenta that nourished the baby is injested by the new mom—dried and put into gelatin capsules, or just plain cooked and eaten. The placenta is... More »

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FDA • mothers • organs • mammals • birth • placenta • fetus • gelatin capsules • placentophagy • childbirth • nutrients

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