A special immune treatment may not be necessary until after the first trimester of pregnancy, according to a new Penn State and University of Pennsylvania study. The researchers said their results ...

About 5 to 7 per cent of Indians have Rh-negative blood, far lower than the 15 per cent seen in Western populations. The blood type itself causes no health problem. For a woman planning a pregnancy, ...

You are probably aware of the two main blood group systems: the AB system and the rhesus system. Under the AB system, there are four main blood types A, B, AB and O. And each of these four types can ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 79-year-old female. I am in generally good health, but have a question about RhoGAM. When I had my children in the ’60s, I was in the original study conducted to see if my AB ...

Rhesus (Rh) incompatibility is amongst the many complications couples face in marriage (Image: Shutterstock) Couples are often plagued by various problems in marriage including fertility and pregnancy ...

In March, the U.S. FDA reported a major shortage of Rhogam, the anti-D immune globulin most widely used to prevent Rh factor incompatibility in pregnancy. Without treatment, second and subsequent ...

The mysterious Rh factor-in human blood had disturbed the serenity of many a mother-to-be. For if a wife’s blood were Rh negative and a husband’s Rh positive, their child might be stillborn, or born ...

Going into her third pregnancy, Courtney Yeager, 35, knew there was a chance she might encounter some challenges. Yeager has a negative blood type, meaning her blood lacks a protein called Rh factor.

Kindly let me know whether there are any reports/research into incidences or relative risks of Rh alloimmunization in subsequent pregnancies (especially third) in an Rh D-negative G3P2002 with 2 ...

You are probably aware of the two main blood group systems: the AB system and the rhesus system. Under the AB system, there are four main blood types A, B, AB and O. And each of these four types can ...