OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of maternal mortality associated with eclampsia and to determine how socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the women influence the deaths. METHODOLOGY Records of 52 eclampsia-related mortalities from January 2003 to December 2007 were reviewed, retrospectively. Their social demography, mode and place of delivery, time of eclampsia, and fetal ou...

1 Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore Address of Correspondence: Dr George Yeo, Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Rd, Singapore 229899. Maternal Fetal Medicine Emerged as an Obstetric Subspecialty Has it done any good to pregnancy outcome as promised? Pregnancy outcome is commonly represente...

THE goal of all labor and delivery units and of birthing centers is a safe birth for both newborn and mother. Yet, an examination of current statistics raises significant questions about whether that aim is being achieved. A report released this year found that more than 2 women die of pregnancy-related causes every day in the United States, with the maternal mortality ratio doubling from 6.6 d...

BACKGROUND Post-conflict Liberia has one of the fastest growing populations on the continent and one of the highest maternal mortality rates among the world. However, in the rural regions, less than half of all births are attended by a skilled birth attendant. There is a need to evaluate the relationship between trained traditional healthcare providers and skilled birth attendants to improve ma...

Worldwide maternal mortality rate had reduced tremendously including Malaysia. At the 2000 Millenium Summit, eight Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) were established with target for the year 2015. Three years remained until the deadline to achieve MDG5, which comprised of two targets and one being reducing the maternal mortality ratio by 75%. This review compared the trend of maternal mortalit...

Too little attention has been paid over the past forty years to the complete lack of a factual record in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, and to the Court's fundamental assumption that drove the outcome. The decision and opinions were driven by the medical claim that "abortion was safer than childbirth," which was raised for the first time in the briefs in the Supreme Court without any lower cour...

r ^ HERE are, of course, problems in the interpretation of all historical mortalities, but those surrounding maternal mortality show some unusual and rather complicated features, and they illustrate some interesting points concerning what one might call the "mechanics" of death registration in the past. For the most part, I deal here with the Registrar General's statistics for England and Wales...

The communication, which forms the opening paper of this discussion, is based on a study of 279 cases of placenta praevia treated, for the most part, in the Royal Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh. In 25 of the cases the mother died, representing a maternal mortality of 8-9 per cent. Including still-births and neonatal deaths 182 of the children were lost, representing a fetal mortality of 64 per c...

PURPOSE The direct impact of protracted conflict on population health and development is well understood. However, the extent of a war's impact on long-term health, and the opportunity costs, are less well understood. This research sought to overcome this gap by asking whether or not health outcomes in Sri Lanka would have been better in the absence of a 26-year war than they were in the presen...

BACKGROUND With 4 years until 2015, it is essential to monitor progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5. Although estimates of maternal and child mortality were published in 2010, an update of estimates is timely in view of additional data sources that have become available and new methods developed. Our aim was to update previous estimates of maternal and child mortality us...