Evidence from the WOMAN-2 Trial shows that pregnant women with anaemia are substantially more likely to suffer life-threatening bleeding after childbirth. This video shows how anaemia can increase risk of …
Professor Ian Roberts and Professor Camara Phyllis Jones comment in The Lancet on the link between postpartum haemorrhage, iron deficiency anaemia and structural racism.
The WOMAN-2 Trial found that a reduction in haemoglobin of 10 grams per litre of blood just before birth increased the risk of life threatening bleeding after childbirth by 23%.
Haleema Shakur-Still is Emeritus Professor of Global Health Clinical Trials at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Co-Principal Investigator of the WOMAN-2 Trial.
Ian Roberts, Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Clinical Trials Unit at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, highlights the need to treat heavy menstrual bleeding as a …
December 19 2009 was one of the best days of my life and also one of the worst. It was nearly the last day of my life. Early that morning …
Dying in childbirth? It’s something I thought didn’t happen in the UK, that was, until it nearly happened to me. I gave birth to my fraternal twins and experienced a …
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