A Qatar birth cohort found tripled stillbirth odds in consanguineous pregnancies
The elevated risk showed up even in babies with no detectable malformation — which is not what the standard recessive-disease explanation predicts.
Lifestyle changes in pregnancy cut gestational diabetes — by how much depends on the test
An analysis of 104 trials found a 10 to 20 percent reduction under some diagnostic criteria and none under UK criteria. A separate review found a GDM diagnosis is not associated with more stillbirths.
WHO issues its first standard of care for diabetes in pregnancy, covering 21 million women
The 27 recommendations cover monitoring, diet and medication for type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes. WHO had guidance on diabetes and guidance on pregnancy, but never on the two together.
A mentoring scheme for pregnant teenagers halved deaths in a Sierra Leone pilot
In 12 clusters, 6% of girls in the intervention group experienced a maternal or perinatal death against 13% in control. The trial was a pilot, and the authors present it as such.