Dr Flavia Bustreo was appointed Assistant Director-General for Family, Women’s and Children’s Health in 2010. Danielle Barron interviewed her in the lead-up to Safe Motherhood Week 2018 DB: Can you tell me what improvements you have seen in the area of maternal...
Petra De Sutter is a gynaecologist, and professor in reproductive medicine at Ghent University (Belgium) and also a politician. She is member of the Belgian Senate and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where she is active in the committee of...
Having a disease shouldn’t mean you can’t have a child. And being pregnant shouldn’t prevent you from getting treatment. However, there is still a big knowledge gap on pregnancy and medicine. Where information exists, it is fragmented, difficult to find as well...
Many women are able to become pregnant after breast cancer, but the residual effects of the disease and its intensive medical treatments has put a question mark over the risk of the cancer returning. Thankfully it was determined in 2017 that pregnancy after breast...
Opioids are commonly used drugs for conditions such as chronic pain but little accurate information is available regarding the impact of their use during pregnancy. There is limited knowledge of the damaging effects incurred by opioids during pregnancy in...
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