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Huge cost to filling health worker gap in sub-Saharan Africa
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Hiring the nearly 800,000 workers needed to eliminate the staggering shortage of health care professionals in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 will cost $2.6 billion a year, or 2.5 times the annual funds currently allocated for ...
Study reveals conflict between doctors, midwives over homebirth
May 11, 2009 |
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Two Oregon State University researchers have uncovered a pattern of distrust - and sometimes outright antagonism - among physicians at hospitals and midwives who are transporting their home-birth clients to the hospital because ...
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New study highlights the distress of medical staff
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Whilst losing a baby is distressing for parents, until now it has been less widely acknowledged that medical staff themselves can be affected by the losses experienced by their patients.
British moms to have birth choice by 2009
Apr 03, 2007 |
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British mothers will have a choice of where they give birth by 2009, the health secretary pledged.
Planned home birth with registered midwife as safe as hospital birth
Aug 31, 2009 |
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The risk of infant death following planned home birth attended by a registered midwife does not differ from that of a planned hospital birth, found a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
New study finds home birth safe
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by McMaster University researchers has found low-risk women who have midwives in attendance during birth have positive outcomes regardless of where the delivery takes place.
Study to explore why women stop breastfeeding
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Eighty to 90 per cent of new mothers start breastfeeding when their baby is first born because they are aware of the enormous benefits of breastmilk, however 25 per cent of new mothers will have stopped breastfeeding by the ...
Don't ask, don't tell doesn't work in prenatal care
Sep 30, 2008 |
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While obstetrical care providers are doing a good job working with their patients on smoking cessation, they are not doing as well on abuse of other substances that can harm a woman's unborn baby. A new study appearing in ...
'Womb' service for student midwives
Jul 19, 2006 |
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A pregnant robot will offer a helping hand to student midwives, as they learn to cope with the most complex of births before ever meeting a real mother.
Swedish emergency rooms closed by strike
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Emergency rooms were closed at a number of Swedish hospitals Monday after nurses and other healthcare workers went out on strike.
Pregnant women who are lesbians want to be treated like any other expectant mother
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Midwives often struggle to meet the needs of pregnant women who are lesbians, with patients reporting that the focus is often on their sexuality rather than the fact that they are expecting a baby, according to research in ...
Postnatal depression can possibly be prevented drug-free
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 16, 2009 |
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A heart-to-heart chat with a peer has proven an effective way to prevent postnatal depression in high risk women, cutting the risk of depression by 50%, according to a University of Toronto nursing study published in BMJ ...
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