http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Every year, 10,000 pregnant women and up to 200,000 newborn babies are killed by the malaria parasite. Doctors all around the globe have for years been looking in vain for a medical protection, and now researchers from the University of Copenhagen have found the biochemically weakness of the lethal malaria parasite, and will now start developing a vaccine to combat pregnancy related malaria. http://phys.org/news226658875.html Chemistry Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:48:18 EST news226658875 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ten guiding principles to strengthen global health strategies and outcomes have been created by a Yale School of Public Health professor and other experts. http://phys.org/news212249200.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:06:57 EST news212249200 (AP) -- The World Health Organization said Wednesday that fewer women die each year from complications during pregnancy and childbirth than previously estimated, but efforts to sharply cut maternal mortality by 2015 are still off track. http://phys.org/news203769856.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:10:02 EST news203769856 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes a couple can't get pregnant although anatomically everything seems normal. Emory reproductive endocrinologist Sarah Berga may be able to explain why: Stress. http://phys.org/news198239684.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:50:01 EST news198239684 A trial in Ghana has shown that vitamin A supplementation does not reduce maternal mortality—contradicting previous findings from a trial in Nepal which showed a 44% decrease. The new study (ObaapaVitA) is reported online and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet and has been written by Professor Betty R Kirkwood, Professor in Epidemiology & International Health and colleagues in the Department of Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK. http://phys.org/news192256165.html Medicine & Health Wed, 05 May 2010 06:00:04 EST news192256165 A study by Sue J. Goldie and colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health published this week in PLoS Medicine finds that better family planning, provision of safe abortion, and improved intrapartum and emergency obstetrical care could reduce maternal mortality in India by 75% in less than a decade. http://phys.org/news191004525.html Medicine & Health Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:40:01 EST news191004525 (AP) -- The number of women dying in childbirth worldwide has dropped dramatically, a British medical journal reports, adding that it was pressured to delay its findings until after U.N. meetings this week on public health funding. http://phys.org/news190462124.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:10:10 EST news190462124 The number of women dying from pregnancy-related causes has dropped by more than 35 percent in the past 30 years - from more than a half-million deaths annually in 1980 to about 343,000 in 2008, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and collaborators at the University of Queensland. http://phys.org/news190288138.html Medicine & Health Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:49:13 EST news190288138 More than 500,000 women die each year worldwide due to complications arising from pregnancy and childbirth. Half of these women live in sub-Saharan Africa. A research team from the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) in Madrid says these women are not dying as a result of any illness, but rather from a lack of basic healthcare measures. http://phys.org/news185713519.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:33 EST news185713519