At your first prenatal visit, your practitioner will check your blood to see whether it is type O, A, B, or AB, and whether it is Rh-negative. Like your blood type, you inherit your Rhesus (Rh) factor ...

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 ...

Apart from the classification of blood based on ABO system, in which the blood is that of type A, B, AB or O, it can also classified based on the rhesus factor. That is represented by the plus or ...

Paraded before the media, 14-month-old Abigail Skinner is oblivious to the fuss around her. She is just starting to walk, and is more concerned with exploring the room than with the cameras trained ...

MOST if not all antenatal visits start with routine blood tests. These tests allow health care practitioners to obtain information on the expectant mother’s bill of health in addition to facilitating ...

The rhesus factor is an inherited characteristic of the red blood cells (erythrocytes). It acts as an antigen, i.e. Rh-negative people can produce antibodies against foreign Rh-positive blood cells in ...

If the blood of a pregnant woman is rhesus-negative (Rh-negative) and the blood of the foetus is rhesus-positive (Rh-positive), the woman may develop antibodies, which can cause severe harm to ...

Perhaps, many are conversant with the practical concept of genotype or genotypic compatibility. Either via counseling, class lectures, health awarenesses, personal research etc, anyone would ...

No fewer than 34 million women are Rhesus Negative, a Rhesus solution campaigner, Mrs Funmilayo Banire, has said. This, she said, accounted for the high rate of still births and loss of babies due to ...

A protein similar to the Rhesus factor antigens that are used to determine the safety of blood transfusions removes acid from the blood and could have a role in regulating pH elsewhere in the body, ...