Allison Reidenbach was asked if she wanted to donate her twin babies' placentas to Lifeline of Ohio about an hour before she was to have a Caesarean section at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital for the ...

Donated placentas, umbilical cords, and amniotic membranes are used to create healing grafts for various medical procedures. The donation process is voluntary, free, and does not impact the delivery ...

MARIETTA — Marietta Memorial Hospital has reached a milestone with the success of gaining its 100th placenta donation for the Lifeline of Ohio’s Placenta Donation Program. Just one placenta has the ...

Dean Poole II died June 2011 and donated his organ and tissues to Lifeline of Ohio. His sister, Marlee Sindelar, recently donated placenta from the birth of her daughter, Kaylee. Placenta donation can ...

Laura Wilson didn't know about placenta donation until she was on the operating table. "I had a cesarean, so they came in while I was being prepped for surgery," Wilson says in a YouTube video. "It ...

As well as keeping a baby healthy while developing in the womb, the placenta can stimulate and aid the healing process when used to treat damaged areas of the eye. (Getty Images) “It was just burning.

St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor (Mich.) Hospital partnered with the nonprofit Gift of Life Michigan to create a placenta donation program, according to local news station WWJ. Through the program, mothers ...

Labor and delivery clinical nurse manager Rainy Tieman had wanted to implement a placental donation program at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Grand Junction ever since she heard about the innovative ...

COSHOCTON — Marlee Sindelar will make sure her daughter knows about the tissue donation she made at birth and how it put her in the footsteps of the uncle she'll unfortunately never meet. Dean Poole ...

Dr Abudu Kunle of the Department of Histopathology, University of Uyo, Akwa-Ibom, has urged pregnant women to donate their placenta for biomedical research. Kunle made the call in a paper titled: ...

Donna Balachowski received what she calls the best birthday gift at Marietta Memorial Hospital last year. She was the recipient of a skin graft from a placenta donation to fix a previously ...

A man's eye was saved thanks to an innovative procedure involving donated placenta tissue A man who was attacked by an assailant with battery acid nearly lost his eye — until an innovative procedure ...