23 April 2021

A quarter of new mothers are not asked about their mental health

New mothers are still not being asked about their mental health despite GP practices in England now being funded to...

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21 April 2021

Underweight and overweight women at higher risk of successive miscarriages

A new study has shown that underweight and overweight women are at a significantly higher risk of experiencing recurrent miscarriages...

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19 April 2021

Engineer cautions pregnant women about speed bumps

Research by UBC Okanagan researcher and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Hadi Mohammadi, conducted in collaboration with Sharif University of...

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16 April 2021

Study sheds more light on use of oxytocin during labour

A study published by The BMJ recently sheds more light on the use of oxytocin (a hormone that stimulates contractions)...

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9 April 2021

Simple fetal heartbeat monitoring still best at reducing emergency caesarean sections

Intermittent auscultation, in which the baby’s heartbeat is monitored using a sonic aid or Doppler probe, outperforms more modern methods...

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7 April 2021

Experimental treatment offers hope of fertility for early menopausal women

Menopause typically signals the end of a woman's ability to become pregnant. However, in a small new study, a novel...

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29 March 2021

Pregnant women show robust immune response to COVID vaccines

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the...

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26 March 2021

NMC reflects on extraordinary time one year on from the first Covid-19 national lockdown

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has launched a week of reflections on the year of Covid-19 - highlighting and...

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