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Committed to working with partners to improve access to care OTTAWA, Nov. 27, 2012 /CNW/ - Today the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health applauded registered nurses (RNs) while attending the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) Annual Hill Day for the vital contributions they make to the health of Canadians. "We want to express our appreciation for the dedication of nurses as professionals, and advocates of health promotion and education," said Minister Aglukkaq. ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with tomorrow's National Premature Infant Awareness Day, the National Perinatal Association announced today the release of the Multidisciplinary Guidelines for the Care of Late Preterm Infants, created to deliver evidence-based instructions and tools on the management and care of late preterm infants - an often underserved, yet at risk group. Developed in collaboration with more than 20 healthcare professionals and...

Infant mortality has fallen by half, and the number of women who died from complications during pregnancy and childbirth by three-quarters. This is the result of a four-year health care project in one of India's poorest districts. "We're overjoyed that mortality could be reduced with relatively simple means like mobile health care centers. It was successful because pregnant women and new mothers got the opportunity to actively seek care." So says Siw Alehagen who, together with...

ROME, October 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Millennium Development Goal 5 "Improve maternal health" set by the United Nations has made some progress, albeit slow. In 2010, the UN Secretary-General launched the 'Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health' to mobilise commitments by governments and civil society to accelerate progress towards it. "In advance to Mr Ban Ki-moon's avowal, FIGO, the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, set against this...

NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An innovative maternal health program in Tanzania funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies is projected to impact at least 50,000 mothers and their children over the next three years, Mayor and philanthropist Michael R. Bloomberg announced today. More than 100 local non-physician clinicians including assistant medical officers and nurse midwives in Tanzania's most isolated areas have been trained to perform life-saving procedures...

Medcial volunteers brave monsoon conditions to bring crucial medical care and health education to remote areas of Nepal, providing needed health services and strengthening clinical and cultural bonds in Nepal. Millwood, VA (PRWEB) September 21, 2012 Project HOPE volunteers are braving monsoon conditions in high, above-the-clouds mountain locations to bring crucial medical care and health education to remote areas of Nepal in a humanitarian mission with the U.S. Air Force. Patients are...

A new Cochrane Review concludes that all countries should consider establishing proper home birth services. They should also provide low-risk pregnant women with information enabling them to make an informed choice. The review has been prepared by senior researcher, statistician Ole Olsen, the Research Unit for General Practice, University of Copenhagen, and midwifery lecturer PhD Jette Aaroe Clausen. In many countries it is believed that the safest option for all women is to give birth in...

Pledge to Reduce Prematurity and Infant Mortality, Save Lives and State Funds AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 48 states as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have pledged their support to give more babies a healthy start in life by reducing premature birth and infant mortality, the March of Dimes and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) announced today. The announcement was made at the ASTHO annual meeting by...

Women demand research-based maternity care not offered in most American hospitals SAN DIEGO, Aug. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Called "the largest women's rights issues in decades," women will gather simultaneously across the country this Labor Day to bring attention to the need for informed birth choices, evidence based practice, and humanity in American maternity care. The first National Rally for Change takes place between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., Monday, September 3, at or...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online It's not all in the hips, baby. The length of human pregnancy is limited primarily by a mother's metabolism, not the size of the birth canal, suggests a new study from the University of Rhode Island. This new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenges the long-held notion of an evolutionary trade-off between childbirth and a pelvis adapted for walking upright. Big brains and the...