http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Severe and life-threatening complications in pregnancy can have a big impact on fathers as well as mothers. That's one of the key findings of work by Oxford University researchers who spoke to couples who had been through this, in compiling a new resource for the award-winning patient website healthtalkonline.org. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-dads-mums-difficult-births.html Health Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:24:41 EST news285312274 A new study of working women has identified factors during pregnancy and postpartum that can predict pain in the joints that comprise the pelvic girdle. While 90 percent of working women in the Netherlands return to work after the birth of their first child, health issues during the postpartum period often require sick leave. Chief among these health issues is pelvic girdle pain (PGP). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-predictors-postpartum-pelvic-joint-pain.html Health Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:43:06 EST news273850977 Couples who adopt after unsuccessful IVF treatment have a better quality of life than both childless couples and couples without fertility problems, reveals a study from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-good-quality-life-couples.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:55:07 EST news271936391 South Korea's top court Thursday struck down a challenge calling for an end to tough legal punishments for midwives and others administering illegal abortions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-korea-court-abortion.html Other Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:10:01 EST news264933910 Researchers from The University of Nottingham are leading the largest ever international research project into the genetics of the potentially fatal condition pre-eclampsia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-nottingham-world-largest-pre-eclampsia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 16 May 2012 12:11:18 EST news256389059 A scheme supporting newly graduated, unemployed, and retired midwives to work in rural areas of Nigeria and provide essential obstetric care has helped to improve maternal, newborn, and child health and could potentially serve as a model for other low-income countries. This includes helping redistribute health workforce in low-income countries to reduce the health inequities between urban and rural areas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-midwives-rural-areas-essential-obstetric.html Health Tue, 01 May 2012 18:00:01 EST news255107917 (AP) -- Midwives and doctors are longtime rivals in the politics governing where women should give birth: Home or hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-idaho-case-midwife-tension-hospitals.html Health Tue, 01 May 2012 08:24:25 EST news255079449 It is well known that nurses and midwives work schedules are often irregular and involve shifts, now new research from the University of Otago, Christchurch in association with the University of Queensland has also shown that long hours and harmful alcohol use are linked. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-hours-linked-alcohol-nurses-midwives.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:18:43 EST news251011095 (Medical Xpress) -- The result of a major study comparing two methods of maternity care, commissioned by the HSE and conducted by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, has been published recently in the journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-maternity-published.html Health Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:43:36 EST news240846171 Newly qualified nurses, midwives and allied health professionals who took part in an online course during their first year of employment reported increased clinical skills development and confidence. However the survey on the Flying Start NHS™ programme, published in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing, found that mentors needed more training and time to provide support. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-online-newly-nurses-midwives-ahps.html Other Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:59:02 EST news240746321 Mums who are overweight or obese when they become pregnant may be programming their children to have asthma-like respiratory symptoms during adolescence, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-pre-pregnancy-overweight-teen-asthma-symptoms.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:55:16 EST news232685686 Up to 3.6 million lives could be saved every year if midwifery services were upgraded in 58 developing countries by 2015, according to a major new report released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in partnership with the University of Southampton and 28 other organisations worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-adequate-midwifery-million.html Health Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:12:09 EST news227952709  (Medical Xpress) -- An inexpensive instructional program to teach routine newborn care skills to midwives in Zambia resulted in a substantial reduction in the death rate of infants in the first week of life, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-midwives-lowers-death-newborns-zambia.html Health Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:00:01 EST news223021929