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Is your baby moving? Preventing stillbirthSafer 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 timeDoctors 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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$6.6 million in research grants securedThe 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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Young people don’t understand the impact of age when planning a familyMost students underestimate how much age affects the chance of having a baby, according to new research published today.
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Research head welcomes endometriosis planThe Women’s Director of Research has welcomed the Federal Government’s National Action Plan on Endometriosis as an important first step towards finding new treatments for the one in 10 women with the condition.
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First days predict long-term health of preterm babiesNew research will allow doctors to more accurately inform and update parents of extremely preterm babies about their baby’s long-term survival and health risks.
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Family violence common amongst health workersThe first study investigating domestic and family violence amongst female healthcare workers in Australia has found that almost half of them has experienced family violence.
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Trial targets male partners in common bacterial infectionResearchers believe a common bacterial infection currently affecting around a million women in Australian, could in fact be a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
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Endometriosis linked to BMI, study findsNew research from the Women's has shown that women with a healthy BMI were more likely to experience endometriosis, however, obese women were at higher risk of severe forms of the disease.
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Does delayed cord clamping help babies breathe?The Women’s has launched Australia’s first study that aims to help newborn babies who do not breathe spontaneously after birth, by delaying the clamping of the umbilical cord.
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