New NHS guidelines on childbirth
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Women must have more control over how they give birth as well as where, new NHS guidance states.
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NHS star ratings are set to be replaced by a five-level worded grading system under new proposals.
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The government issued new guidance to pregnant women and those trying to conceive Friday, advising that they steer clear of alcohol altogether.
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Health centres staffed by trained   midwives are the key to reducing maternal deaths in poor   countries where more than half a million women die each year   giving birth.
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Having a nurse visit the home a few days after a woman has a baby reduces the number of newborns being readmitted to the hospital with jaundice or dehydration -- and it saves money -- according to a new study.
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A hospital in the Netherlands â-he first nation to permit euthanasia â - proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns and then made a startling revelation
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The cost to the NHS of maternity care for mothers born outside the UK has risen by Â£200m in a decade, the BBC learns.
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Health chiefs are considering a new jab to protect babies against bacterial meningitis, septicaemia and pneumonia.
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Hospitals will be told exactly how to clean their wards under new guidelines hoped to cut MRSA deaths.
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NEW YORK  - In the US, many mothers who  have "no indicated risk" for a difficult vaginal birth are  having caesarean deliveries -- and the rate is rising year by  year -- according to a report in the British Medical Journal.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)  launched a training campaign on Wednesday to help reduce the  number of maternal deaths during childbirth in developing  countries.
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The NHS cost of maternity care for mothers born outside the UK has risen by Â£200m in a decade, the BBC learns.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) launched a training campaign on Wednesday to help reduce the number of maternal deaths during childbirth in developing countries.
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LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters Life!) - Parents anxious to have souvenir ultrasounds photographs or film clips of their unborn child in the womb should make sure they are done by professionals who follow strict safety guidelines.
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Medical experts have welcomed proposed changes to the way investigations into sudden infant deaths are handled. An independent inquiry has produced a report which proposes a major re-think of the way such cases are scrutinised.
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An independent inquiry is set to recommend sweeping changes to the way sudden infant deaths are investigated.
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NEW YORK  - Having a nurse visit the home a  few days after a woman has a baby reduces the number of  newborns being readmitted to the hospital with jaundice or  dehydration -- and it saves money -- according to a new study.