Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists - Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
International & Local Media Wrap Up
Media Wrap Up - Week Ending 18 May 2012
Women’s Health News – Australia
- Older mothers slam age shame
- Can exercising when you’re pregnant be dangerous? ABC Fact Buster
- Induction of labour could reduce birth complications
- Love hormone behind pleasure, pain: obstetric expert
Women's Health News – New Zealand
- Cervical Cancer Patients Avoid Hysterectomies With Help Of 3-D Imaging Techniques
- Pregnant obese women face birth risks
- Births down, deaths up
- Unrealistic images of mothering found
- Free birth control wins public support
- Ready for hypnosis in surgery after pain-free birth
Women's Health News - UK/Internationa;
- Dieting 'safe for pregnant women'
- BJOG release: Emotional distress is key reason why parents choose not to have a post-mortem following a stillbirth
- Mothers 'to have a named midwife to birth and beyond' in NHS reform of care for pregnant women
- Britain's third biggest girl makes waves after water birth: She weighs in at 12lb 6oz
- Obesity in pregnancy: Carrying too many pounds can give your baby a life of weight problems
- My perfect baby proves that jogging is safe
- Wakefield baby's bathroom birth after eight-minute labour
- Rising infertility and cancer rates possibly linked to pharmaceuticals and household chemicals
- High rate of malaria and sexually transmitted/reproductive tract infections in sub-saharan pregnant mothers
- Non-oral contraceptives have higher venous thromboembolism risk than oral ones
- Blood test could show which women are at risk of Postnatal Depression
- Women using alternative contraception to the Pill 'are at double the risk of a blood clot'
- Mother-to-be told she would never fall pregnant will keep baby even though it could paralyse her
- No midwife present for 1-in-4 women at crucial moment of giving birth
- Induction 'cuts baby death risk'
Media Wrap Up - Week Ending 11 May 2012
Women's Health News – Australia
- $1bn in health cuts go to other priorities
- Safety net clamp could cost patients dearly
- Federal Budget 2012 reaction
- Freezing embryos can reduce birth defect risks: study
- Reproductive technologies and the risk of birth defects
Women's Health News – New Zealand
- Waikato Hospital staff under fire over baby death
- Midwife blamed for baby's death
- Sterilised mother wins ACC compensation
- Court rules ACC must cover failed sterilisation
- Contraceptive plan will pay for promiscuous women – Craig
- ACC covers pregnancy after botched sterilisation
- Midwife rejects baby death ruling
- Midwife, hospital staff errors 'contributed to baby's death'
- Midwife's mistakes contributed to baby's death – Coroner
- Hospital accepts fault over baby's death
- Waikato DHB accepts coroner's findings
- Midwife blamed for baby's death
- Contraception move 'offensive': Bradford
- Shearer: Govt targeting mothers, ignoring fathers
- Government's policy to improve access to contraception strongly supported – NZMA
- Sperm lack direction, head-on crashes common
- Free contraception for young beneficiaries
- Family Planning: Funded-contraception should be for all
- Strong clinical leadership in new maternity programme
- Folic acid in bread 'reduces' birth risks
- Risk in fertility treatment – study
- Workforce Innovation website
Women's Health News – UK/International
- Inductions cuts risk of babies dying, research say
- Vaginal rings 'riskier than contraceptive pill'
- Sex chromosomes are here to stay
- Some forms of assisted reproduction increase risk of birth defects
- Coil could be a more effective form of emergency contraception than the morning after pill
- 'I have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming': 'Infertile' mother who tried to get pregnant for 22 YEARS speaks of 'miracle' daughter
- Mother can't pick up newborn after having stroke during pregnancy
- The designer baby factory: Eggs from beautiful Eastern Europeans. Sperm from wealthy Westerners. And embryos implanted in desperate women
- Infertile couples may benefit from study that reveals sperm crawling and colliding on way to egg
- UK's most popular IVF treatment in turmoil over shock report into baby defects
- Embryo test 'raises IVF success'
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