Reproductive health, pregnancy and birth.
10 topics · 12 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
WHO Recommendations for Prevention and Treatment of Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia
World Health Organization · 2011
Sets out evidence-based recommendations — including magnesium sulphate, antihypertensives and timing of delivery — for preventing and managing…
+2 more at this level
Assumes you know the vocabulary.
FIGO Classification System (PALM-COEIN) for Causes of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding in Nongravid Women of Reproductive Age
Munro, Critchley, Broder & Fraser · 2011
Proposes replacing inconsistent descriptive terms for abnormal uterine bleeding with a structured, cause-based classification, arguing that a shared…
+4 more at this level
Primary sources and full treatments.
Fertility Control with Oral Medication
Pincus et al. · 1958
Reports the first large-scale field trials of a synthetic progestin taken by mouth, arguing that ovulation can be reliably suppressed by a pill taken…
+3 more at this level
12 works
World Health Organization
Sets out evidence-based recommendations — including magnesium sulphate, antihypertensives and timing of delivery — for preventing and managing pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, arguing that most maternal deaths from the condition are preventable with correctly timed intervention.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Recommends increasing routine antenatal contacts from four to eight, arguing the extra visits improve the experience of pregnancy and catch complications earlier, not only that they reduce mortality.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Sets global targets for HPV vaccination, screening and treatment coverage, arguing that cervical cancer — caused almost entirely by a preventable and treatable infection — is the first cancer with a realistic path to elimination as a public health problem.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Munro, Critchley, Broder & Fraser
Proposes replacing inconsistent descriptive terms for abnormal uterine bleeding with a structured, cause-based classification, arguing that a shared taxonomy is a precondition for comparable research and treatment across centres.
Winner et al.
Compares intrauterine devices and implants against pills, patches and rings in a large prospective cohort and argues that unintended pregnancy is overwhelmingly a failure of contraceptive method rather than of the user, since long-acting reversible methods fail twenty-fold less often.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Reframes labour care around the woman's experience alongside safety, recommending against routine interventions such as continuous electronic fetal monitoring in low-risk births for lack of evidence of benefit.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Saifon Chawanpaiboon et al.
Estimates around 15 million preterm births a year with little global decline, arguing that prematurity is the dominant driver of neonatal death and that the trend has resisted intervention.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNFPA & World Bank Group
Tracks maternal mortality ratios across two decades and finds progress has stalled since 2016, concentrated overwhelmingly in sub-Saharan Africa and countries in conflict.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Pincus et al.
Reports the first large-scale field trials of a synthetic progestin taken by mouth, arguing that ovulation can be reliably suppressed by a pill taken independently of intercourse.
Harald zur Hausen
Proposes, against the dominant herpesvirus hypothesis of the time, that a papillomavirus is the more plausible cause of cervical cancer — the conjecture that led to the discovery of HPV's causal role and to the vaccine that followed.
Patrick C. Steptoe & Robert G. Edwards
Reports the live birth of the first human conceived by in vitro fertilisation, establishing that an embryo cultured outside the body could implant and develop normally.
Rossouw et al.
Reports that combined hormone therapy in postmenopausal women increased cardiovascular and breast cancer risk more than it reduced fracture risk, reversing decades of clinical assumption and ending routine long-term prescribing.
link checked 17 Sept 2026