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Bottlenecks 1
Constraints that slow progress.
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Heavy bleeding after birth is often missed or noticed late when blood loss is judged by eye, which is frequently inaccurate. The response WHO now recommends is to measure blood loss objectively and...
Ideas 1
Hypotheses, each with a proposed test.
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An untested question. Starting skin-to-skin care right after birth lowered deaths of small babies in the WHO iKMC trial, which ran in five hospitals in Africa and India. Would it also help small...
Products 1
Devices and products, with their versions.
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A pair of blood tests from Roche Diagnostics, run in a laboratory, whose results are combined into the sFlt-1/PlGF ratio. In the United States the FDA cleared it in February 2025 as an aid in judging...