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Introduction: Ethiopia has made notable progress in reducing maternal and perinatal mortality, yet challenges remain in meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Persistent issues such as low service utilization, coupled with poor quality, fragmented care, and ineffective referral systems hinder progress. The "Improve Primary Health Care Service Delivery (IPHCSD)" project, implemented by JSI and Amref Health Africa since April 2022, seeks to address these gaps through a Networks of Care (NoCs) approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) is a pathological communication between the urinary bladder and the vagina. The most common cause of VVF is hysterectomy, while less common causes include obstetric trauma and pelvic surgery. Most cases require surgical intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Chem
January 2025
Prenatal Genomics and Therapy Section, Center for Precision Health Research, National Human Genome Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.
Background: Prenatal cell-free DNA (cfDNA) screening is a success story of clinical genomics that has translated to and transformed obstetric care. It is a highly sensitive and specific method of screening for the most common fetal aneuploidies, including trisomies 13, 18, and 21. While primarily designed to detect fetal chromosomal abnormalities, the test also analyzes maternal cfDNA, which can complicate interpretation of results.
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January 2025
Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Pregnancy-associated changes in melanocytic nevi (MN), apart from size increase on the trunk, remain a topic of debate. We conducted the first prospective study to investigate dermoscopic changes in MN comparing pregnant with non-pregnant women on all body parts using a market-approved convolutional neural network (CNN). We included 25 pregnant and 25 non-pregnant women from Basel, Switzerland, who underwent standard skin cancer screenings and whose MN > 2 mm were digitally recorded and analysed by a CNN.
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January 2025
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
Introduction: Previous studies on the association between recovery from Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and postpartum depressive and anxiety symptoms had conflicting results. This study aimed to investigate the psychological burdens among postpartum women who had experienced COVID-19 infection during their pregnancies and those who had not.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at Taichung Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan from April 2022 to January 2023.
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