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Tackling Papua New Guinea’s Maternal Health ‘crisis’
Decades of neglect, a failing health system and remote mountainous topography have created a “crisis in maternal health”, according to a government taskforce in Papua New Guinea.
Pregnant Women At Low Risk of Complications Can Safely be Offered a Choice of Where to Give Birth
Women with low risk pregnancies should be able to choose where they give birth, concludes a study published on bmj.com today. Although it shows that first-time mums who opt for a home birth are at a higher risk of adverse outcomes, the overall risk is...
Free Childbirth Unsustainable in Guinea Say Critics
Mortality rates in Guinea have dropped significantly over the past two decades, but efforts to speed up progress on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015 through a ban on childbirth fees, including...
Battle Between the Placenta And Uterus Could Help Explain Preeclampsia
A battle that brews in the mother’s womb between the father’s biological goal to produce the biggest, healthiest baby possible vs. the mother’s need to live through delivery might help explain preeclampsia, an often deadly disease of...
Better Food Key to Malnutrition And Obesity
Simultaneously tackling obesity and malnutrition may seem like “polar opposites”, conceded UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the High-Level Meeting on Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases in New York, but an increasing number of countries...
Fear of Childbirth Increases Likelihood of C-section
A new study published in the international journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica (AOGS) reveals that fear of childbirth is a predisposing factor for emergency and elective cesarean sections, even after psychological counseling. This may...
Extreme Morning Sickness Could Lead to Lifelong Emotional, Behavioral Disorders in Kids
An extreme form of pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting known as hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) takes a heavy toll on thousands of women each year and can lead to hospitalization and pregnancy termination. But new research suggests pregnant women are not...
President of the Sierra Leone Midwifery Association Calls for Government to Address Acute Shortage of Midwives
The President of the Sierra Leone Midwifery Association Doctor Joan Shepherd on Friday called on the government to be committed into the recruitment of more midwives in the country. How People Arrived Here: sierre leone and midwives, tiny flag of Sierra...
