News tagged with perinatal period


Depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence in the 12 months after childbirth

Forty percent of women who report depressive symptoms following birth also reported intimate partner violence finds a new study published today (7 December) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

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Surviving premature babies in Malawi continue to have poor growth rates and development delay

A detailed study from Malawi, published in this week's PLoS Medicine, shows that during the first 2 years of life, infants who were born prematurely (before 37 weeks gestation) continue to have a higher risk of death than i ...

Health created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0