Pregnancy
- Access to water, Bangladesh, Climate crisis, Global development, Health, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Pregnancy, South and Central Asia, Water, World news
‘Headaches, organ damage and even death’: how salty water is putting Bangladesh’s pregnant women at risk
As rising sea levels and extreme weather contaminate drinking water sources, doctors are seeing alarming numbe…
- Afghanistan, Childbirth, Health, Midwifery, Pregnancy, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘The Taliban killed a midwife who refused to leave a woman in labour’
Zahra Mirzaei pioneered ‘groundbreaking’ maternity services in Kabul, but has been forced to flee. She says sh…
- Afghanistan, Childbirth, Health, Midwifery, Pregnancy, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Gunmen killed a midwife who refused to leave a woman in labour’
Zahra Mirzaei pioneered ‘groundbreaking’ maternity services in Kabul, but has been forced to flee. She says sh…
- Bollywood, Culture, Family, Film, Health & wellbeing, India, Life and style, Parents and parenting, Pregnancy, South and Central Asia, World news
Kareena Kapoor Khan on breaking pregnancy taboos: ‘No one wants to talk about belching and swollen feet!’
One of Bollywood’s most bankable actors has written a revolutionary pregnancy book that lifts the lid on libid…
- Asia Pacific, Biology, China, Genetics, Hong Kong, Parents and parenting, Pregnancy, Science, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Women, World news, Xi Jinping
Reasons to be fearful of China’s data-gathering | Letters
We should be suspicious of the role of the Chinese Communist party in the harvesting of genetic data from unbo…
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‘Don’t look dishevelled’: anger over Seoul city’s advice to pregnant women
Government guidelines give tips on how to avoid putting on weight and how to prepare food for men who are ‘una…
- Global development, Health, India, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Pregnancy, South and Central Asia, Women, World news
How does a pregnant woman get to hospital when there’s no road? By stretcher …
Women from the mountains of Uttarakhand in India have been guaranteed palanquins so that they can reach vital …
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus outbreak, Health & wellbeing, Infectious diseases, Life and style, Medical research, Parents and parenting, Pregnancy, Science, UK news, World news
No elevated risk of coronavirus in pregnancy, experts say
No evidence virus passes to foetus during pregnancy, according to latest researchCoronavirus – latest updatesP…