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Only half of pregnant women worldwide get treatment for preventable Rh disease – News-Medical.Net
Only half of pregnant women worldwide who need a treatment developed over 50 years ago to prevent Rh disease–an often-fatal condition in fetuses and newborns that is now exceedingly rare in the United States and Western Europe–actually receive it, finds a s…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Aug 10 2020
Only half of pregnant women worldwide who need a treatment developed over 50 years ago to prevent Rh disease–an often-fatal condition in fetuses and newborns that is now exceedingly rare in the United States and Western Europe–actually receive it, finds a study led by researchers at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
A previous study estimated that complications of the disease may b…
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