Anti-vaccine advocate and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unilaterally revoked federal recommendations for healthy ...

But it's rare for antibodies by themselves to make it impossible to get pregnant. In men ... Women’s bodies can make anti-sperm antibodies if they have an allergic reaction to semen.

Maternal D typing also should be performed to identify D-negative pregnant women who might require the use of anti-D immunoglobulin prophylaxis. Although some antibodies are not likely to ...

His plasma contained a rare antibody, known as Anti-D ... About 17 per cent of pregnant women require Anti-D, but finding donors for the programme remains difficult, the government said.

Harrison's blood contained the rare Anti-D antibody, used in medicines administered to pregnant mothers to prevent their blood from attacking their unborn babies. Harrison began donating in 1954 after ...

“As an Anti-D recipient myself ... to RhD-positive blood – often during a previous pregnancy – her immune system may produce antibodies that attack the baby’s blood as a foreign threat.

Known in Australia as the ‘man with the golden arm’, his blood contained a rare antibody, Anti-D, which was used to create a treatment for pregnant women whose blood could potentially harm their ...

In this disorder, a pregnant mother’s immune system perceives ... and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research to replicate Anti-D antibodies from Harrison and other donors in the laboratory.

In 1966, scientists discovered that blood plasmas containing Anti-D, an uncommon antibody, could be administered during pregnancy to help prevent hemolytic disease of the newborn, which can cause ...