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 ...

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 ...

Labels marking bags of donated blood throughout the world contain information about the presence of a Rhesus (Rh) antigen, a protein found on the membranes of human red blood cells. Yet, despite the ...

Does your blood type – specifically, your Rh factor (positive or negative) – matter in your daily life? Not in the slightest. But when pregnant your Rh status can matter, especially if it's negative.

Rh-negative blood, affecting a small percentage of Indians, poses risks during pregnancy if the mother is Rh-negative and the baby Rh-positive. Without intervention, subsequent pregnancies can lead to ...

A new factor has been added to the marital equation. It is the Rh factor in human blood, discovered in 1940 and so named because famed Blood Analysts Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Solomon Wiener used ...

The so-called Rh factor makes few headlines these days, but until the middle of the 20th century it was a serious public-health concern, implicated in the deaths and severe disabilities of 10,000 ...