News tagged with perinatal death

Spontaneous and medically induced preterm births contribute equally to the rising rate of preterm births

Research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine shows that the rising rate of preterm birth in Scotland is as much a result of an increase in spontaneous preterm birth as it is of preterm birth that i ...

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created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study examines decrease in delivery-related rate of death of infants born at term

During about the last 20 years, the risk of delivery-related death at birth or shortly thereafter for term infants has decreased nearly 40 percent in Scotland, with the largest contributing factor being a decrease in the ...

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created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Proteinuria during pre-eclampsia: A poor predictor of complications?

The estimation of levels of proteinuria in women with pre-eclampsia is not a clinically useful test to predict fetal or maternal outcomes. Researchers publishing in the open access journal BMC Medicine, present evidence that c ...

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