Health center births key to reducing maternal deaths
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Health centers 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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Support groups that discuss health issues during pregnancy and after childbirth can help to reduce infant and maternal deaths in poor countries, researchers said on Friday.
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India plans to create a registry of all pregnancies to help curb widespread female feticide and reduce its high infant mortality rate, although activists say the scheme will be hard to implement.
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A study of more than 30,000 women who had previously delivered a baby by Caesarean section found that a subsequent vaginal delivery slightly increased the risk of an adverse outcome for the baby
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Infectious diseases kill a surprisingly large number of women during pregnancy, according to a study published on Tuesday that suggests many maternal deaths in the developing world are preventable.
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PRETORIA -- The World Health Organization urged poor countries yesterday to offer deworming pills to pregnant women after a recent study in Nepal showed a 41 percent drop in the deaths of infants of mothers who took the pills before giving birth.
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Women who attempt to deliver their babies vaginally after a Caesarean section face some health threats to themselves and their babies, although those risks are small.
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Nearly 40 percent of the 128 million babies born worldwide every year are not officially registered, and two thirds of deaths also go undocumented, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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India plans to create a registry of all pregnancies to help curb widespread female foeticide and reduce its high infant mortality rate, although activists say the scheme will be hard to implement.
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DURHAM, N.C. -- A new center at Duke University will become the first to study why more babies are born premature or underweight in the South than elsewhere in the nation.
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Unsafe abortions in the developing  world kill 68,000 women a year, research suggests.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) called on here Tuesday African governments to provide more resources and show political commitment in the fight against maternal and neonatal mortality.
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Millions of mothers, newborn babies and children die each year in Africa from preventable diseases despite promises of better healthcare by governments and donor countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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Global efforts to promote childhood immunization, breast-feeding and anti-malaria measures have helped cut by nearly a quarter the death rate of children under age 5 since 1990, UNICEF said on Wednesday.
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According to the World Health Organization: while cervical cancer is largely preventable, it kills more women worldwide than those who die during childbirth in any given year.
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NEW YORK  - School-based health centers   that provide high school students with preventive health care   services and counseling on how to reduce high-risk behaviors,   such as unprotected sexual intercourse, may help decrease teen   pregnancy rates, according to the findings of a Colorado study.
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NEW YORK  - A study from Israel indicates that women who have had a stillborn child are at greater risk of dying over the subsequent decades than women who've had only live-born babies.