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Main Category: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Also Included In: Pain / Anesthetics Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 Over 300 million patients use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the world to treat pain, arthritis, fever and other diseases.

Wed., Nov. 18 2009 @ 11:59AM Josh Woodward was arrested in the suspicious death of his girlfriend's unborn child, a 13 week old fetus.

Over 300 million patients use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the world to treat pain, arthritis, fever and other diseases.

Cops believe they now know how a famous L.A. restaurateur allegedly murdered his unborn child -- and it all has to do with a deadly white powder.

Retained placenta is one of the common causes of maternal mortality in developing countries where access to appropriate obstetrical care is limited.

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Wife of doctor accused of abortion poisoning saw husband crush tablets before meeting pregnant lover but denies he spiked her drink By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:48 PM on 07th October 2009 Add to My Stories Accused: Edward Erin, pictured arriving at the Old Bailey today, denies administering his mistress with drugs to produce a ...

Ten years ago, a move to legalise abortion in Namibia failed. The number of unwanted pregnancies remains high, with many people unwilling or unable to use contraception.

Sitting in an apartment in central Manila, 70-year-old Lydia speaks in hushed tones.

Putting medicines for haemorrhage and infection in the hands of community health workers could mean significantly fewer maternal deaths in Africa, according to researchers at University College London .

Improved health facilities and greater access to misoprostol and antibiotics in the community could prevent thousands of maternal deaths in Africa annually, according to research published online Sept.

Main Category: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 23 Sep 2009 Improved maternal care, through improvement of health facilities and better access to drugs via community health workers and village volunteers, could potentially mean 60,000 fewer maternal deaths across Africa per year from post-partum ...

Some 30 members of the Chilean Health Ministry's Consultative Council on Gender and Women's Health have asked the government to enforce a directive ordering humane and compassionate treatment for women who have had an abortion.

QUEENSLAND women facing the trauma of a medical abortion will have to cross the border for the procedure because the state's biggest hospital has scrapped its service, forcing the state government to review its controversial laws on abortion.

BUENOS AIRES, Aug 14 - Tired of calling for the decriminalisation of abortion - the leading cause of maternal death in Argentina - a network of women's rights activists launched a telephone hotline to inform women on a safe abortion method that requires no medical intervention: the use of a pill to terminate pregnancy.

A hotline was launched in Buenos Aires, Argentina last week to give women information they need to terminate pregnancies using the drug Misoprostol.

A hotline was launched in Buenos Aires, Argentina last week to give women information they need to terminate pregnancies using the drug Misoprostol.

TEGAN Simone Leach was 19, pregnant and "scared" when her boyfriend's sister arrived in Cairns last Christmas Day with a consignment of contraband tablets and doctor's instructions written in Ukrainian.

A VETERAN Brisbane obstetrician has blown the whistle on a new form of backyard abortion, involving contraband supplies of the controversial drug RU486 smuggled into the country for women to terminate their own pregnancies.

TEGAN Simone Leach was 19, pregnant and "scared" when her boyfriend's sister arrived in Cairns last Christmas Day with a consignment of contraband tablets and doctor's instructions written in Ukrainian.