Health
Medicaid expansion improves health of moms and babies, study shows
Medicaid coverage, especially for minority and low-income women, plays a key role in improving the health of moms and babies, according to a new report.
May 24, 2019
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News tagged with maternal mortality
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Reducing the maternal mortality rate in Pakistan
In Canada, about seven in 100,000 women die in childbirth each year. In Pakistan, this number is 178. Ultra-poor, marginalized women have the highest rate of maternal mortality.
Mar 9, 2016
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
When insurers cover infertility treatments, fewer women die
When states require that insurers provide coverage of infertility treatments, 20% fewer mothers die during pregnancy, childbirth or shortly after birth, according to a University of Michigan study.
Jun 3, 2020
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
New study points to strategies to reduce maternal death
The number of severe maternal morbidities (SMM) a pregnant woman has is highly linked to her risk of maternal death, according to a new study by researchers at ICES and St. Michael's Hospital.
Nov 9, 2018
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Various factors could be reasons that maternal mortality is no longer falling in the UK
New research from Scotland published in Anaesthesia shows the increased risk of severe maternal sickness/complications (morbidity) is associated with a range of risk factors including increasing maternal age and levels of ...
Jul 12, 2022
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Cardiology
Study helps unravel why pregnant women develop heart failure similar to older patients
Researchers at Penn Medicine have identified more genetic mutations that strongly predispose younger, otherwise healthy women to peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a rare condition characterized by weakness of the heart muscle ...
Apr 20, 2021
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Health
Medicaid expansion improves access to postpartum care
Study comparing Utah and Colorado finds Medicaid expansion helped prevent new mothers from losing coverage to the "postpartum coverage cliff," with implications for reducing maternal mortality.
Jan 7, 2020
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Health
Maternal deaths cut by half: UN
Better care has cut the number of women dying in pregnancy and childbirth by nearly half in the past two decades, but there is still a death every two minutes, according to UN figures released Wednesday.
May 16, 2012
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Inducing labor can reduce birth complications without increasing Cesareans
Induction of labour beyond 37 weeks of pregnancy can reduce perinatal mortality (death before, during or shortly after birth) without increasing caesarean section rates, finds a study published on BMJ today.
May 10, 2012
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
What more boy births could reveal about South Africa's health status
There are several ways to find out whether a population's health is improving or if people in a particular country, city or region are getting sicker. These measures are known as sentinel health events or indicators.
Nov 21, 2016
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