Why would too much amniotic fluid be a problem? Learn when polyhydramnios is worrisome and how it’s handled.

LOS ANGELES (WJW) — Hailey Okula, an influencer known as Nurse Hailey to her 440,000 followers on Instagram, has died due to complications from childbirth, her husband, Los Angeles firefighter Matt ...

Cells taken from the fluid around growing fetuses have been used to make organoids, 3D bundles of cells that mimic tissue. These organoids could help researchers to understand diseases that develop in ...

Amniotic fluid is a liquid that surrounds and protects your baby in the womb. When there’s too much amniotic fluid in your womb, though, that condition is called polyhydramnios. It can cause ...

Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a life-threatening condition that affects pregnant women shortly before, during, or immediately after labor and delivery. It is a syndrome marked by the start of ...

The FDA has sent another letter -- this time a warning letter-- to a company that it previously flagged for marketing amniotic fluid eye drops. In a letter to Carl Harrell, MD, CEO of Regenerative ...

Hailey Okula, a nurse influencer, has died after giving birth to her first child, a son named Crew, her husband told CBS Los Angeles. They had dealt with infertility for almost two years. Okula, a ...

Hydramnios is a condition specific to pregnant women. It occurs when you have too much amniotic fluid around your baby. It occurs in around 1-2% of pregnancies. Polyhydramnios is a different word for ...

Injecting medicine into the amniotic fluid staves off progression of spinal muscular atrophy in utero. Evidence is mounting that clinicians can treat serious genetic disorders prenatally by injecting ...

AMONG the rarer causes of maternal death, pulmonary embolism by amniotic fluid has been the subject of considerable recent interest. 1 In most patients with this disorder who survived the period of ...

If dry eye disease is severe and doesn’t respond to medications, surgery or other procedures may be needed. One option includes amniotic membrane grafting. Dry eye is a common condition where your ...