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In a hospital ward in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, Fatmata Conteh, 26, lay on a bed, having just given birth to her second child. She had started bleeding from a tear in her cervix, the blood forming a pool on the floor below. Two doctors ran in and...
So it seemed before dawn one Sunday in August in Kora Olia, a remote village in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Badakhshan, where maternal mortality is about four times the country's already high rate. Nine months pregnant, Harakatmo, 19, began bleeding heavily. Her husband and mother-in-law were...
More will die if health-care systems are not reformed. In the first half of this year, 889 babies were delivered in Freetown's crumbling Princess Christian Maternity Hospital. During that period, 70 women died giving birth, and about eight more women have died since--an astonishing death rate of...
Ayckbourn, 69, is explaining this in the sunny and spacious Scarborough house (actually three Georgian townhouses that he connected) where he lives with his second wife, former actress Heather Stoney. The effects of his stroke are visible. He walks unsteadily, and his left hand is fairly useless, reducing his two...
A study last year conducted by the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit demonstrated that Red Bull increases heart rate and blood pressure.