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Lives of mothers and babies are at stake’ - Sierra Leone, which has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates, is ...

Experts warn that weak regulation of assisted reproduction, inadequate neonatal intensive care, and poor referral systems are policy failures.

Sage Sowels' routine checkup revealed life-threatening pre-eclampsia, prompting an emergency C-section at 28 weeks.

Screening pregnant women at 36 weeks using a validated risk model and offering risk-stratified planned early-term birth ...

Despite long-standing recommendations, a major updated Cochrane review finds that calcium supplementation during pregnancy does not meaningfully reduce pre-eclampsia risk, prompting a rethink of how ...

Objective Delivery of a small for gestational age (SGA) infant is a common pregnancy complication among women with SLE.

Aspirus Wisconsin Rapids joins the Blue Band Project to improve early detection and treatment of preeclampsia in pregnant and ...

Pre-eclampsia is a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy and can have serious adverse effects on the maternal vascular structure if persists postpartum. In a new study, researchers evaluate the ...

If left unchecked, pre-eclampsia can progress to eclampsia, a condition marked by seizures that can be life-threatening for both mother and child. Therefore, early detection and timely management are ...

Eclampsia is usually a result of severe preeclampsia. This is a condition characterized by high blood pressure and protein in the urine. However, other factors may also play a role. Eclampsia is when ...

A MUM suspected she had pre-eclampsia when she was 34 weeks pregnant and her headaches got worse. But Bethany Wright, 26, was instead found to have cancer after a CT scan, and may have just three ...