The incidence of having a baby in the bottom-down (“breech”) position at the end of pregnancy is about 1 in 25. The “Term Breech Trial” (TBT) is a landmark randomised controlled trial that changed the management of breech birth since its publication in 2000. It concluded that a planned Caesarean birth is safer for […]
Category: Resource-limited settings
Preventing tooth decay in resource-limited settings
For the first time since it was first published in 1977, dental medicines have been added to the World Health Organization Essential Drug List. How could it take 44 years to include these items on a list addressing people’s priority needs given that untreated tooth decay is the most common global health condition? The […]