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Maternal Health: Time to Deliver

A shocking number of women die or are disabled each year trying to give birth— more than 10 million women, according to the WHO, 99% of whom are in developing countries [1]. The maternal health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)— to reduce maternal mortality by threequarters and to provide universal access to reproductive health by 2015—are long considered the most underachieving of the MDGs a...

Time to deliver patient centred care.

Patient centred care is central to the mission of healthcare, yet traditionally neither patients nor the public have had the power to shape the services they use and pay for, or define their value. As a result, many patients find services difficult to navigate, disempowering, burdensome, and seemingly designed to frustrate. There have been repeated calls to enlist patients’ help to reform syste...

Umbilical vein thrombosis: to deliver or not to deliver at the time of diagnosis?

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE Umbilical vein thrombosis is a rare anomaly with high mortality that frequently occurs in association with fetomaternal conditions. The unfavorable outcome of our case highlights the need for consensus on severity criteria, including the percentage of vascular occlusion determined by power Doppler, in order to improve outcome.

Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org T Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) advanced a powerful vision for the future (MA 2005), and now it is time to deliver. The vision of the MA – and of the prescient ecologists and economists whose work formed its foundation – is a world in which people and institutions appreciate natural systems as vital assets, recognize the cent...

Pre-exposure prophylaxis works--it's time to deliver.