Statement content in Pregnancy Complications

Today Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, publish a new report entitled ‘Preventing Babies’ Deaths: what needs to be done’.

UPDATE (19/10): Since the publication of this statement, the RCOG has produced an addedeum to its clinical guidelines on early pregnancy loss. To view, please click here.  

New papers published today in Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology look at the use of ultrasound when detecting a miscarriage.

Cardiac disease is a leading cause of maternal death in pregnancy in many developed countries, including the UK.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) welcomes the Lancet’s new series on stillbirths which looks at the latest figures from around the world.

Research published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases today shows that although many countries in sub-Saharan Africa now have policies to reduce and control malaria in pregnancy, the estimated coverage of treatment was lower in areas of high-intensity malaria transmission, where women are in most need of protection. The authors say that progress made towards the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Roll Back Malaria Initiative has been slow and many pregnant women do not have access to insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and do not receive antenatal intermittent preventive treatment (IPT).