When you’re pregnant, you may learn that your baby isn’t your type — blood type, that is. Every person is born with a blood type — O, A, B, or AB. And they’re also born with a Rhesus (Rh) factor, ...

One out of every eight marriages in the U.S. is a potentially dangerous mismatch, biochemically speaking. In these 200,000 or more marriages a year, the wife lacks the Rh factor present in most blood ...

Every year, some 10,000 ailing babies are born in the U.S. to parents with hostile blood types caused by the mysterious Rh factor.† Even with the most modern treatment, the best that doctors could ...

We are all aware of the four blood types: Type O, Type AB, Type B, and Type A. The reason why blood types are different in the first place is because each of those blood types depends entirely on the ...

My blood type is A negative. I’ve heard this can cause pregnancy issues, so I Googled “Rh-negative blood” and ran across a bunch of weirdo sites with “theories” about the origin of negative blood ...

When a woman and her unborn baby carry different Rhesus (Rh) protein factors, their condition is called Rh incompatibility. It occurs when a woman is Rh-negative and her baby is Rh-positive. The Rh ...

The rhesus factor, or Rh factor, is a protein that may be present on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs). If RBCs contain the Rh antigen, they are Rh-positive, and if not, they are Rh-negative. It ...

It's always a good idea for any couple to think ahead and prepare for pregnancy, so Mom and baby can be as healthy as possible. When facing the potential for Rh disease, as you two are, it's even more ...

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 ...

Only one in every six million people have the Rh null blood type. Now researchers are trying to grow it in the laboratory in the hope it could save lives. Blood transfusions have transformed modern ...

This study was undertaken to determine whether Rh-positive mothers induce immunologic tolerance or primary sensitization in their Rh-negative daughters as the result of transplacental passage of the ...