18 May 2023

New app helps midwives spot health issues at birth

Digital resource provides important information to midwives, students and healthcare staff A new app that will help healthcare practitioners, educators...

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16 May 2023

Latest MBRRACE-UK figures for maternal and perinatal mortality in the UK are published

The MBRRACE-UK collaboration, led from Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), has recently published data on women who died...

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12 May 2023

Experts call for monitoring of respiratory vaccine after trials suggest possible increase in preterm births

Pfizer says vaccine is safe and effective, but trial results prompt calls for further analysis of data and post-approval monitoring ...

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10 May 2023

Tommy’s launches new strategy to grow research, improve care and end inequities

Tommy’s – a UK’s charity funding pregnancy research – is launching a new strategy to guide its next decade of work, with a...

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2 May 2023

Perinatal mental health gets virtual reality treatment in ground-breaking training programme

England has become the first country in the world to launch clinical training in perinatal mental health using extended reality...

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27 April 2023

Royal College of Midwives adds The Positive Birth Company’s Closing the Gap workshop to Decolonising Midwifery Education Toolkit

The Decolonising Midwifery Education toolkit has been created by the RCM in response to figures which show Black, Mixed Heritage...

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25 April 2023

Extra pregnancy scan slashes number of breech births and risk to babies

Adding a third routine scan at the end of pregnancy can slash the number of unexpected breech births by 70%...

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18 April 2023

Earlier diagnosis of ovarian cancer is possible with collaboration, says charity

Target Ovarian Cancer reveals results of innovative project to tackle late diagnosis Research co-funded by charity Target Ovarian Cancer showed...

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