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Khabre desk
Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the maternal-health desk.
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A medRxiv preprint analysing surveys of 26,539 recent mothers found that Bangladesh’s caesarean rate rose from 19.5% in 2012–13 to 52.0% in 2025. The researchers attributed most of the increase, in accounting terms, to more births taking place in facilities.
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Google describes a study with 2,000 mothers in Nairobi and Chicago that used AI to interpret video from simple “blind sweep” ultrasound scans. The company says the model estimated gestational age and fetal presentation as accurately as a trained sonographer.
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A systematic review and external validation assessed 48 models for predicting four adverse pregnancy outcomes using more than 1.58 million UK pregnancies. Most showed limited discrimination and substantial miscalibration in the UK cohort.