Advice to pregnant women (HSENI - Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland)
(Source: HSENI - Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland) Date: 22 January 2016 Pregnant women who come into close contact with sheep during lambing or other farm animals that are giving birth may...
View ArticleWHO: Zika Virus Spreading Explosively in Americas
VOA News The World Health Organization warns the Zika virus, seen as a possible cause of severe birth defects, is spreading rapidly through the Americas and could affect as many as four million people....
View ArticleGirl hankers for life with militant husband
Almost a year after she was rescued from Boko Haram captivity by the Nigerian army, 16-year-old Zara John is still in love with one of the Islamic militants who abducted her. She was delighted to...
View ArticleWashington Hill: Every baby deserves a Healthy Start
Healthy Start is a nonprofit group that works collectively to improve the outcomes for mothers, babies and families in Florida. The Healthy Start Program began in 1991, when then-Gov. Lawton Chiles and...
View ArticleIn Rio, Olympics will inspect for water to help prevent Zika
(CNN)To guard against a virus linked to birth abnormalities, Brazil's Olympic and Paralympic venues will be inspected daily during the 2016 Games in Rio Janeiro, games spokesman Phil Wilkinson said...
View ArticleNamibia: Maternity waiting homes protect newborns and mothers (WHO - World...
(Source: WHO - World Health Organization) January 2016 Two years ago, under shade trees in a field adjacent to the Okongo Hospital located in the Ohangwena Region of northern Namibia, 20 to 30 tents...
View ArticleThe Big Push: Call the Midwife in Bangladesh
More than 350,000 babies are born globally every day. Yet in many cultures it remains a mystical and deeply superstitious act. Now expertise from the UK's TV hit Call the Midwife is helping people in...
View ArticlePushed to the limit: 24 hours with the busiest midwives in Europe
At Liverpool women's hospital the rising birthrate and understaffing are putting ever more pressure on NHS workers...
View ArticleReport backs up link between smoking, obesity and stillbirth
Tuesday, 17 June 2014, 1:34 pm Press Release: Report backs up link between smoking, obesity and stillbirth A report from the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC) has provided...
View ArticleCall to review baby death rates at more than 20 NHS trusts and boards
Inquiry urges those with higher than average stillbirth and newborn death rates to examine their maternity care to see if mistakes were made...
View ArticleMobile Technology Reducing Cameroon's Maternal, Child Deaths
Moki Edwin Kindzeka YAOUNDE— Cameroon is experimenting with an automated message service to reduce the number of deaths of pregnant women and infants in Cameroon due to lack of information on antenatal...
View Article'Half of UK stillbirths could be prevented with scans'
More than half of stillbirths in the UK could be prevented if the NHS implemented additional scans, a leading obstetrician has told Panorama. Each year, more than 3,000 babies are stillborn in the UK,...
View ArticleRoyal baby: When to induce?
30 April 2015 From the section Health The birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's second baby is reported to be overdue, possibly by up to one week. So what could happen now? Most women go into...
View Article‘Highest number of newborns die in India annually’
LONDON: With nearly 8 lakh new born babies dying every year in India, the country holds the dubious distinction of having the highest number of such deaths globally. A comprehensive review led by...
View ArticleCall the midwife ‘Dad’
Being at the birth of his first child was a life-changing experience in more ways than one for Daniel Oakes. His Californian wife, Heather, had opted to give birth at their home in Dundalk, Co Louth,...
View ArticleWorldwide Nearly 6 Million Babies are Born and Die Each Year Without Birth or...
(Source: Save the Children Federation Inc) New Lancet Series finds counting births and deaths is an indicator of progress towards ending 3 million preventable infant deaths Media Contact Phil Carroll...
View ArticleOne million babies die globally on the first day of their life – Save the...
(Source: Save the Children United Kingdom) EMBARGOED 25th FEBRUARY 2014 00:01GMTThe first 24 hours of a child's life are the most dangerous with more than one million babies dying each year on their...
View ArticleChina ranks second in global fight to reduce stillbirths, study finds
China ranks second in reducing the number of stillbirths, yet the annual amount was still the fourth highest in the world, a study published today in the Lancet medical journal has found. Last year,...
View ArticleBoy born with eight limbs doing well after surgery to remove 'parasitic...
A baby boy born with four legs and four arms is “progressing well” following surgery, doctors have said. For the first two-and-a-half months of his life, Paul Mukisa was attached to a “parasitic twin”...
View ArticleGalamsey Women Dont Attend Ante-Natal
Dr. Edmund Ekow Kaitoo, the medical officer in charge of the East Akim Municipal Health Directorate, in the Eastern Region, has observed that some pregnant women in the area do not attend antenatal...
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