Tag: Childbirth

  • Nation & World

    Hip correction

    A new study finds no connection between hip width and efficient locomotion, and suggests that scientists have long approached the problem in the wrong way.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Saving women during childbirth

    Throughout history, more women have died in childbirth than men have died in battle, Mahmoud Fathalla, founder of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, told attendees at the recent Global Maternal Health Conference in Arusha, Tanzania, co-sponsored by Harvard School of Public Health’s Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and Management and Development for Health (MDH), a Tanzanian…

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Haiti: Dr. Louise, a higher purpose

    An assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and infectious disease specialist at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Louise Ivers works through the nonprofit organization Partners In Health.

    1 minute