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Maternity care: Remifentanil is recommended as alternative to epidural in draft guidance

Women in labour who need ongoing pain relief but do not want an epidural should be offered the […]

April 25, 2023 Obstetrics and gynaecology

Emergency contraceptive pills don’t induce abortion, says US regulator

Emergency contraceptive pills work by inhibiting or delaying ovulation and are not abortifacients, the US drug regulator has […]

December 30, 2022 Obstetrics and gynaecology

Women need high quality, independent information about the menopause

From broadsheet newspapers to the Today programme, there was fulsome coverage of the recent report from the UK […]

December 7, 2022 Obstetrics and gynaecology

Abortion: Four doctors in Italy receive suspended sentences for manslaughter after denying woman procedure

Four doctors in Italy, all of them “conscientious objectors,” have received suspended prison sentences after a 32 year […]

November 2, 2022 Obstetrics and gynaecology

More than a third of US counties lack obstetric care as services are deemed unprofitable

More than a third of the 3143 counties in the US are maternity “deserts” without a hospital or […]

October 17, 2022 Obstetrics and gynaecology

Women are left vulnerable as Haiti’s spiralling gang violence and healthcare crisis intensifies

Haiti’s economic crisis, growing lawlessness, and escalating gang violence are causing its health system to collapse just as […]

August 19, 2022 Obstetrics and gynaecology

Roe v Wade: How its scrapping will affect women worldwide

In 2018 a reproductive health organisation in Kenya found that anti-abortion advocates had put the address of its […]

August 11, 2022 Obstetrics and gynaecology

Balancing the knife: India debates the pros and cons of pushing caesarean sections

Lakshmi was due to deliver her baby in a week, so her in-laws called an astrologer to find […]

August 3, 2022 Obstetrics and gynaecology

Women’s health: specific assessments to become mandatory in medical training

Specific teaching and assessments on women’s health will become mandatory for all graduating medical students from 2024 and […]

July 20, 2022 Obstetrics and gynaecology

President Biden issues executive order to try to protect abortion rights

The US president issued an executive order on 8 July in an attempt to protect women’s access to […]

July 11, 2022 Obstetrics and gynaecology

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