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Professor Siobhan Quenby
Professor Siobhan Quenby from Warwick Medical School, talks about her medical research into miscarriage causes, support and treatments.
Big Baby Trial
Listen to BBC radio interview with Professor Siobhan Quenby and Dr Mark Porter on BBC 4 Inside Health. Siobhan, talks about the trial which aims to find out whether delivering the child two weeks early, at 38 weeks, reduces shoulder dystocia and makes the birth safer for mother and child.
Miscarriage Matters
A new series of 3 papers published in The Lancet reviews evidence on miscarriage and challenges many misconceptions.
The authors, Siobhan Quenby, Arri Coomarasamy, and colleagues, call for a complete rethink of the narrative around miscarriage and a comprehensive overhaul of medical care and advice offered to women who have miscarriages. Watch the full series here
Eggs & Embryos
Human reproduction is highly inefficient by nature, with only ~30% of conceptions resulting in live births. The most common cause for reproductive failure and pregnancy loss is when the early embryo possesses the wrong number of chromosomes (aneuploidy). This is often incompatible with further development. Our project is trying to understand the molecular mechanisms that underly the high failure rate by asking one main question; how is the number of chromosomes controlled in the very first stages of human development?
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Born pre-term: How early adversity and social environment affect life course development
The £2.8 million ERC Advanced Grant PRETERM-LIFECOURSE project (underwritten by UKRI), led by Professor Dieter Wolke studies how early adversity affects development into adulthood and whether age related function, disease and the time we may die is already determined in the womb and at birth. Read more here
NIHR - Surviving Crying
Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of a Service to Support the Mental Health and Coping of Parents with Excessively Crying Infants - Read the full article here.
AI tool assesses premature birth risk from vapours
University of Warwick researchers have developed a tool, using machine learning, which can accurately predict premature births in almost three-quarters of women with an asymptomatic high risk.
Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy is not just morning sickness
Referring to nausea and vomiting in pregnancy as simply ‘morning sickness’ is not entirely accurate and trivialises the condition.
Morning sickness does not adequately describe the symptom pattern and the term should no longer be used.
Daily symptom diaries of nausea and vomiting were kept by 256 women and symptom patterns and changes in daily patterns by week of pregnancy were modelled. There is a peak of probability of nausea in the morning, a lower but sustained probability of nausea throughout the day and a slight peak in the evening. Vomiting has a defined peak incidence in the morning.
Big Baby Trial
Listen to radio interview with Professor Siobhan Quenby and Dr Mark Porter on BBC 4 Inside Health. Siobhan, talks about the trial which aims to find out whether delivering the child two weeks early, at 38 weeks, reduces shoulder dystocia and makes the birth safer for mother and child.