"MISSED LABOUR."

A Case of Missed Labour

ments, aged about 30, was admitted to the hospital on the 24th March, 1924, with a history of pregnancy dating from the 1st January, 1923. She had her last regular menses in the month of December 1922. She noticed and felt all the usual signs and symptoms cf a normal pregnancy in the usual course of events. In the month of September, 1923, one day the usual labour pains began but in a very mild...

Use of prostaglandin E2 in the management of missed abortion, missed labour, and hydatidiform mole.

Treatment of six cases of missed abortion and one case of hydatidiform mole with intravenous infusion of prostaglandin E(2) resulted in complete abortion in all cases. Of 15 patients with missed labour, 14 were delivered successfully with similar treatment. The technique appears to be a safe, reliable, and rapid method of managing missed abortion, missed labour, and hydatidiform mole.

Mummified Premature Calf Expelled Long after Its Death in Utero—Missed Labour

Missed threads

Over the past two decades, molecular genetic research has helped to elucidate the genetic component of many diseases and conditions. Patients can now be tested for a wide variety of disease-causing genes to improve dia gnoses and risk predictions for patients and their families (www.eddnal.com). This, in turn, has allowed physicians to provide advice on lifestyle or other preventative measures ...

Missed targets

Back in 2002, when the UN-sponsored, intergovernmental Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) set targets aiming to reduce the loss of biodiversity by 2010, that date must have looked very distant, providing ample time to change the world and turn the tides on the loss of wild nature. However, the time has come — probably sooner than everybody expected — and the CBD’s third Global Biodiversit...