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Is your baby moving? Preventing stillbirth
Safer Care Victoria has launched the Movement Matters campaign which aims to encourage women to seek advice from their midwife or doctor if their baby’s movement declines or stops. It comes as the Women's trials a new app to help expectant mothers.
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Baby’s first breaths captured on ultrasound for the first time
Doctors at the Women’s have for the first time, captured moving ultrasound images of the lungs of newborn babies as they take their first breaths.
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Midwifery leader delivers 2018 Tracy Maund Oration
One of Australia’s leading midwifery researchers with an international reputation as a scholar and leader in maternal and newborn health care delivered the 2018 Tracy Maund Oration on 24 October.
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New hospital-led community service for mums and bubs
Mothers will benefit from a new “one-stop-shop” support program aimed at bridging the gap between in-hospital and community care for women who are experiencing depression, anxiety or trauma.
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First Quads in 21 years
The Royal Women’s Hospital has had a special arrival of four perfect babies, the first set of surviving quadruplets to be born at the hospital in 21 years.
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Endometriosis: Considering surgery?
Up to 10 per cent of Australian women have endometriosis. Since it was first identified in the second half of the 19th century, doctors have been treating it surgically. But how effective is this treatment?
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The Women’s Foundation Awards 2018
Each year a number of generous donor-funded awards are handed out by the Women’s Foundation to offer career development opportunities to our exceptional staff members.
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Quit smoking style strategy needed for family violence
Family violence advocate Rosie Batty will today tell the statewide Family Violence Forum that a Quit style strategy is needed to change behaviours in order to end violence against women.
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The Women’s Staff Awards 2018
Clinical Trials Coordinator Julene Hallo has been honoured for her remarkable contribution to her work, her patients and to cancer research, receiving the 2018 Woodward Family Medal of Excellence.
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$6.6 million in research grants secured
The Women’s researchers will share in more than $6.6 million in fellowship grants and Centre for Research Excellence grants after a highly successful National Health and Medical Research Centre grant round.
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