In the wake of the 1918/1919 "Spanish flu" influenza pandemic, the probability of low birth weight and stillbirth increased among women in Switzerland, according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, ...
Aug 16, 2023
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A decades-long effort to lower the stillbirth rate in the United States has stalled, as has progress in closing a persistent gap in excess stillbirths experienced by Black women compared with White women, according to a Rutgers-led ...
Nov 10, 2022
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More than 80% of UK medical certificates recording stillbirths contain errors, research reveals.
Jun 21, 2022
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Despite an overall decline in stillbirths across the UK in recent years, rates among black and South Asian communities are still around double those of the rest of the population, finds an analysis of monitoring data, published ...
Mar 9, 2022
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As part of standard patient protocol, doctors inform women of the risks of pregnancy. But there is one exception to this standard: stillbirth.
Jan 29, 2021
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Many of the more than 2,000 stillbirths that occur in Australia each year are preventable through improved maternity care, according to a major new collection of peer-reviewed papers published today in the journal Women and ...
Oct 20, 2020
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Clinicians in many countries are using what's known as the Growth Assessment Protocol (GAP) to monitor fetal growth in pregnant women. Some reports state that the programme may be linked with reduced rates of stillbirth, ...
Apr 8, 2020
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In the first comprehensive study mapping global patterns of stillbirth rates, University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers have found that pregnant women who are poor and have lower access to education and employment are ...
Feb 4, 2020
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High maternal blood sugar levels and BMI are risk factors for stillbirth in mothers with diabetes, according to a new study in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes), with babies ...
Jul 30, 2019
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Six Australian babies are stillborn each day. This equates to more than 2,000 babies each year.
Dec 7, 2018
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