A multi-country clinical trial has shown that a structured, sustainable approach to infection prevention and treatment can save women's lives, cutting severe maternal infections and deaths by about ...

Of puerperal (childbed) fever caused by Streptococcus haemolyticus more than 3,000 U. S. women die every year. Although sulfanilamide has miraculously cured thousands of puerperal infections, ...

Despite the widespread application of standard aseptic techniques during vaginal birth, cesarean birth, and/or termination of pregnancy, postpregnancy infections remain a significant source of ...

Though TNF inhibitor exposure during pregnancy and postpartum was not associated with a significantly increased risk for serious infection, exposed pregnancies had numerically higher rates. The ...

The third in a series of papers presented in the Symposium on Obstetrics at the Annual Meeting of the New Hampshire Medical Society at Manchester, May 7, 1935. Kellogg, Foster S. — Associate in ...

New research from Scotland published in Anaesthesia shows the increased risk of severe maternal sickness/complications (morbidity) is associated with a range of risk factors including increasing ...