Pregnant teens: Girls in South Africa need focused, supportive health care and more information about safe sex
An estimated 12 million teenage pregnancies are reported globally every year.
Nov 6, 2024
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Environment and Public Health: News and Research on Maternal Mortality
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Michigan health network created to fight infant, maternal mortality
Fourteen of Michigan's leading health networks and institutions gathered on October 28 to announce a collaboration to decrease the state's maternal and infant mortality rates.
Oct 29, 2024
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Research exposes global inequities in maternal health risks across a woman's life
New findings published in The Lancet Global Health expose substantial global and regional disparities in the cumulative burden of life-threatening maternal morbidity across the female reproductive life span.
Oct 17, 2024
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Study finds high endocarditis mortality rates for those who inject drugs, but treatment dramatically improves survival
People who inject drugs are dying at an alarming rate from endocarditis, a serious but treatable heart-valve infection. But their odds of survival improve dramatically, even five years after their first admission to hospital, ...
Oct 4, 2024
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Arkansas' governor says Medicaid extension for new moms isn't needed
Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to a pharmacy in West Little Rock, Arkansas, to fill a prescription.
Sep 23, 2024
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America is trying to fix its maternal mortality crisis with federal, state and local programs
At the site of a race massacre that reduced neighborhoods to ashes a century ago, where murals memorialize a once-thriving " Black Wall Street," one African American mother strives to keep others from dying as they try to ...
Sep 4, 2024
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Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations may increase care engagement and quality among pregnant and postpartum patients
A new study has found that Medicaid ACOs in Massachusetts were associated with increases in prenatal and postpartum office visits, postpartum depression screenings, and timely postpartum care.
Sep 3, 2024
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Maternal death statistics skewed by COVID, not decreased by end of Roe v. Wade: Study
Federal statistics suggesting that maternal mortality rates plummeted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade are "highly misleading" and being misinterpreted by abortion opponents, according to new research published this week ...
Aug 28, 2024
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Maternity care in rural areas is in crisis: Can more doulas help?
When Bristeria Clark went into labor with her son in 2015, her contractions were steady at first. Then, they stalled. Her cervix stopped dilating. After a few hours, doctors at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia, ...
Aug 1, 2024
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Study finds increase in maternal deaths from non-respiratory during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
During the peak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there was an increase in maternal mortality in Chile. This is confirmed by a natural population experiment based on data from the Department of Health Statistics and Information ...
Jul 22, 2024
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