News from NZ shows that children who have been vaccinated against whooping cough are still catching the disease. Latest figures show the pertussis, or whooping cough, outbreak in Canterbury is still in full swing, with the region having the highest number of cases in the country in the first two weeks of April 2012.
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Who would have thought?? C&P from Science News… Planned home birth with registered midwife as safe as hospital birth Published: Monday, August 31, 2009 – 12:31 in Health & Medicine The risk of infant death following planned home birth attended by a registered midwife does not differ from that of a planned hospital birth, found a study http://www.cmaj.ca/press/cmaj081869.pdf published
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AIMS Journal, Spring 2000, Vol 12 No 1 Emergency hysterectomy has to be done occasionally to save the mother’s life at delivery when there is uncontrollable haemorrhage. A recent report from St. George’s Hospital in London shows that emergency hysterectomies at delivery have increased seven-fold in recent years. Between 1992 and 1998 the unit did
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Too early? AIMS Journal, Winter 1999/2000, Vol 11 No 4 A review of babies in the Northern Region born at 34 weeks or more who needed ventilation for respiratory distress syndrome, has shown what a huge difference a couple of extra weeks in the womb can make. Since 1950 the WHO has defined births between
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AIMS Journal, Winter 1999/2000, Vol 11 No 4 A study of over 18,000 deliveries from Jordan found that previous caesarean section increased the risk of placenta praevia (the placenta growing low down in the womb where it partially or completely the baby’s exit) from 0.25% to 1.87%. The greater the number of previous caesareans, the
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Placenta accreta is a condition where chorionic villi from the placenta have grown down into the muscles of the uterus and there is no clear separation between the placenta and the wall of the uterus. This means that the placenta cannot be easily removed without risk of torrential haemorrhage, which can kill the mother, or
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AIMS Journal, Summer 2002, Vol 14 No 2 When newborn babies die of infection, the leading cause is the group B streptococcus. Paediatricians from Newcastle carried out a survey in the Northern Region in which they looked for risk factors.1 For each infected baby in a neonatal unit, they selected four controls for comparison. Of 37
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Human immune systems do not start to function till about 8 weeks – after a full term birth . . AIMS Journal, Spring 2000, Vol 12 No 1 Doctors from Winchester report four cases where premature babies developed severe apnoea (failure to breathe) within 24 hours of having diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT) and influenza
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Heather’s comment – just stating the obvious. . . A group of obstetricians in Ohio has looked at bacteria present around the cervix before and after vaginal examinations. 35 women in labour (25 of them with ruptured membranes) had a speculum examination and at the same time a sample of fluid was taken to check
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AIMS Journal, Autumn 2000, Vol 12 No 3 Caught early enough Strep B can be treated successfully. Jane Plumb of the Group B Strep Support Group gives a brief outline of how to identify it and what to do. Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a common type of the streptococcus bacterium. Approximately a third of
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