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So exciting to share the results of the APT-Sepsis trial! 32% reduction in maternal mortality and severe morbidity. www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... Potential for huge impact with APT Sepsis implementation. Amazing job to the team & leadership of Prof Lissauer @livuninews.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social

So exited that our long I process vaginal birth core information set is out today! doi.org/10.1111/1471... thank you to everyone who made it happen. We hope it can support conversations about birth choices! @liverpooluni.bsky.social @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social

OBGYN Objective Spontaneous vaginal births are often the presumed choice, representing 45% of UK births. However, information about benefits and risks is inconsistently given, impacting decision-making an.....

What information do women/birthing people want&need to know about vaginal birth? Find out in @bjog.bsky.social who have today published the vaginal birth core information set! doi.org/10.1111/1471... amazing work from the @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social we hope this supports conversations about birth!

Beautiful setting for the British Intrapartum Care Society’s conference!! Really lovely start to the day from Susie Crowe! Looking forward to learning lots and sharing our research. @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social

OBGYN Linked article: This article is commented on by Walker, pp. 2040–2041 in this issue. To view this article visit https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.70012.

Checkout the @bjog.bsky.social health equity issue loads of really interesting papers and includes our caesarean birth core information set doi.org/10.1111/1471... and risk communication survey doi.org/10.1111/1471...

Enjoyed sharing @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social at the International Labour and birth research conference today. Was great to discuss core info sets including our published doi.org/10.1111/1471... caesarean core info set and our risk communication work doi.org/10.1111/1471...

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Sharing our systematics review about GDM and stillbirth examined across country income level! @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social

BMFMS is off off off and away at the ICC in Belfast!

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Exciting at the RCOG annual academic meeting for @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social was Ben sharing for the first time our core information set for caesarean birth!

And not to forget old friends / collaborators from Bristol! Go Danya sharing ichoose!

Then there’s the fantastic presentations at the RCOG annual academic meeting from other Liverpool colleagues

And there’s more posters about GDM risks and Induction-amazing job team….there’s still more to come tomorrow! @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social

Fantastic day at RCOG annual academic meeting! So many posters and presentations sharing our work!!! @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social

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Excited to share this work building the case that high quality balanced information can form an important part of pregnancy journeys-work to improve and standardise antenatal education is needed!

Congratulations to @jennymriches who today passed her PhD viva and also published her second paper in @GlobalHealthBMJ in the space of a month! Her thesis has identified key areas where intervention, often simple, may save lives! gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...

A qualitative exploration of women’s expectations of birth and knowledge of birth interventions following antenatal education - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Background Expectations of birth, and whether they are met, influence postnatal psychological wellbeing. Intrapartum interventions, for example induction of labour, are increasing due to a changing pr...

Delighted to share this study where we found that antenatal education impacts expectations of birth doi.org/10.1186/s128...

A qualitative exploration of women’s expectations of birth and knowledge of birth interventions following antenatal education - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Background Expectations of birth, and whether they are met, influence postnatal psychological wellbeing. Intrapartum interventions, for example induction of labour, are increasing due to a changing pr...

Read our study sharing the experiences of 46 women's antenatal education. Birth expectations are informed by Antenatal Education - if it isn't balanced - a mismatch between expectations and experience may be precipitated. An antenatal education curriculum is needed! doi.org/10.1186/s128...

A qualitative exploration of women’s expectations of birth and knowledge of birth interventions following antenatal education - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Background Expectations of birth, and whether they are met, influence postnatal psychological wellbeing. Intrapartum interventions, for example induction of labour, are increasing due to a changing pr...

A qualitative exploration of women’s expectations of birth & knowledge of birth interventions following antenatal education

Anna Davies, Michael Larkin, Lucy Willis, Narendra Mampitiya, Mary Lynch, Miriam Toolan, @abimerriel.bsky.social et al
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The image is a graph titled "Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2019," from Our World in Data. It shows the annual number of polio cases (in red) and deaths (in green). A sharp decline in both cases and deaths occurs after the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1957, which is marked with an arrow labeled "Vaccine introduced in 1957." The graph illustrates the dramatic impact of vaccination on reducing polio cases and fatalities over time.

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Real-world effectiveness and causal mediation study of BNT162b2 on long COVID risks in children and adolescents Our study suggests that BNT162b2 was effective in reducing risk of long COVID outcomes in children and adolescents during the Delta and Omicron periods. The mediation analysis indicates the vaccine’s effectiveness is primarily derived from its role in reducing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

💉👧 Vaccines cut long COVID risk in kids

A @thelancet.bsky.social study of over 113,000 people shows the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine reduced long COVID risk in children and teens. 95% effective during Delta and 60–75% during Omicron.

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A new study in AJOG shows that maternal RSV vaccination earlier in the approved 32-36 week window (at least 5 weeks prior to delivery) results in the highest transplacental transfer of maternal antibodies to the neonate. buff.ly/3UOeFR2

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Amazing work @jennyriches.bsky.social important findings about burden of death following CS in Malawi

We found a high burden of maternal death following CS in this low-resource setting, particularly related to infection. Multiple health systems factors contributed.There is urgent need to develop and trial interventions to improve the safety of CS in such settings #maternalhealth