Topic: Prenatal Health, Labor and Delivery
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-01-27 17:23:45
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Monitoring high-risk pregnancies with ultrasound tests may help prevent some fetal and newborn deaths, a new research review finds.</p><p>The review assessed a technology called Doppler ultrasound, which measures blood flow through the umbilical cord. Abnormal findings indicate that the fetus may be under ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-01-26 23:04:15
<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of women are dying every year during pregnancy and childbirth in the African state of Burkina Faso because discrimination stops them from accessing sexual health services, Amnesty International said Wednesday.</p><p>"Women in Burkina Faso are trapped in a vicious cycle of discrimination which makes giving ...
AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-26 21:11:35
<div><p>When the screams of women giving birth die down, you can hear the subdued cries of those babies who made it alive into the chaotic post-quake suffering of Port-au-Prince's general hospital.</p><p>The women lie atop mattresses on gravel in the sweltering heat of tents erected in the ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-01-26 19:17:35
<div><p>LILONGWE (Reuters) - The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation plans to raise its health funding aimed to reduce maternal mortality in Malawi, Melinda Gates said on Tuesday.</p><p>Gates, the co-founder and co-chairperson of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, told Reuters during her two-day visit to the ...
