Hospitals in the Gulf Region aiming to become regional centers of excellence are placing greater emphasis on maternal care. Maternal care is a major indicator of quality – not only of individual ...

Norwegian researchers have found the first evidence that techniques used in assisted reproduction (ART) may be directly linked to an increase in placenta praevia – a potentially dangerous condition in ...

Read before the Boston Obstetrical Society, February 10, 1877.

A couple who lost their baby to a preventable complication of childbirth are calling for all pregnant women to have a simple screening test. Henry Samat died 13 days after a blood vessel in the ...

Placenta praevia occurs when the placenta develops in the lower part of the womb where it covers all or part of the opening to the cervix. This condition occurs in about one in 200 pregnancies. The ...