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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 13:42 |
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 Pregnant women in Africa can reduce their risk of miscarriage or still birth by up to a third by sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets.
The UK scientific research is likely to bolster calls for treated mosquito nets to be made more widely available to pregnant women and children in Africa.
Malaria is a preventable disease that kills more than 1m people a year, 90% of them in Africa - mostly children.
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 15:27 |
One pregnant woman in every 200 develops a liver disease, called obstetric cholestasis.(1) This can cause serious problems for the unborn baby, including premature birth and fetal distress. Tragically, some babies are stillborn. Much uncertainty surrounds why this disease can put babies at risk, and how best to protect them. Researchers are searching for answers, by investigating possible effects on babies' hearts.
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 11:00 |
Just over one in 200 pregnancies ends in a stillbirth, a figure which has remained unchanged since the early 1990s, a survey has revealed. The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH), found there were 3,600 stillbirths in 2005. Stillbirths are deaths of unborn babies after the 24th week of pregnancy. They are commonest among the under-20s and over-40s and ethnic minorities. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 16:29 |
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 TEARFUL Maria leaves hospital racked with grief – after losing her baby in a harrowing new Coronation Street storyline.
The plot is one of the most heartbreaking in the soap’s history, and insiders say the scenes will leave viewers devastated.
Young hairdresser Maria rushes to get help when she senses something is wrong as her baby son – fathered by new hubby Liam – stops kicking.
Pal Marcus, a sonographer, tells her to go for a hospital scan which reveals the baby has died, and our exclusive snap shows her face etched with torment after she is forced to give birth to the lifeless child.
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