Kristie McNealy, MD

According to new research published in Nature Medicine, preeclampsia may be an autoimmune condition. Investigators were able to induce the symptoms of preeclampsia in mice by injecting them with autoantibodies obtained from women with preeclampsia. The most exciting thing about this research is that symptoms were prevented when

Several articles have popped up in the past couple of weeks that I think you’ll all be interested in. The first two are positive news on the preeclampsia research front, and number three is a new study that may lead to a reduction in chronic lung disease in preemies who experience respiratory distress syndrome [...]

Yesterday, we heard about a study which showed that exercise during pregnancy was good for the fetal cardiovascular system.  Today, we hear evidence that preeclampsia causes damage to the fetal heart.  A study which was presented today at the Society for Endocrinology meeting, found that when preeclampsia reduces the amount of oxygen a fetus receives [...]