Many parents-to-be think because marijuana is natural, it won’t harm their developing baby. As marijuana use during pregnancy ...

“The other possibility that [these organoids] open up is to study the development of the lung at a stage where the access to that tissue is very difficult,” said De Coppi. Given the varied legal ...

Hyperglycemia has been implicated as a cause of delayed fetal lung maturation in the diabetic pregnancy. Previous work has shown that high glucose levels inhibit biochemical and morphologic ...

The diabetic BB rat was examined to determine its suitability as a model for the study of the effects of maternal diabetes on fetal lung development. 18 to 22 day fetuses of diabetic BB rats were ...

"All these things can affect breathing later." That decreased lung volume started early in fetal development and continued after birth. Lo says the study was inspired by her patients who wanted to ...

The maternal fetal medicine clinic had a soft opening this past week in the Valley Heart building on Florida Avenue, across from DMC. The clinic is equipped to serve 16 patients per day who need ...

“Prior work we’ve done shows prenatal cannabis use impacts fetal lung function and development, reducing the baby’s lung volume,” Lo said. “We’ve also found that there is significantly ...