5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (283+ words) A Slate writer proposes Hospital Day, a new observance one year after birth, backed by CDC data showing more than half of US pregnancy-related deaths occur postpartum. Exactly one year after checking into a New York hospital to give birth,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (253+ words) WFP and WHO officials issue stark warnings at the Act for Nutrition conference as Pakistan's stunting rates threaten an entire generation's potential. Ellen Thom, the deputy representative for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Pakistan, delivered a sobering assessment of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (173+ words) South Sudan’s Food and Drug Authority has ordered the immediate recall of Duphaston and Navidoxine due to safety risks posed to pregnant women. South Sudan’s Food and Drug Authority has initiated an immediate nationwide recall of two prominent medications—Duphaston…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (395+ words) Kilifi loses 532 mothers per 100,000 births against Kenya's 355 as US health aid collapses from KES 22 billion to KES 198 million in a year. Esther Bendera received her newborn grandson at Malindi General Hospital, and in the same hour learned that his mother…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (344+ words) Penina Zawadi bled for hours after a Kilifi caesarean and died, one of the mothers behind a mortality ratio of 532 per 100,000 in her county. Penina Zawadi handed her mother her jewellery, promised a safe delivery, and was wheeled into a…...