Shut out of jobs, Afghan women retrain as nurses
A growing number of professional women are enrolling in nursing and midwifery courses, fed up of being cooped up in their homes.
Sun Aug 13 2023
Health workers help deliver Orang Asli twins on ambulance boat
It is a routine practice for nurse-midwife Nur Shaffriza to visit and carry out checks on expectant mothers in the Orang Asli settlement.
Fri Jan 21 2022
Malaysia's oldest woman shares experience of delivering over 700 babies during younger days
Malaysia's oldest woman who turned 110 on March 31, came from India more than 90 years ago as a rubber tapper but ended becoming a midwife.
Mon Apr 19 2021
2,000 rural clinics to be upgraded
He said this was to enable rural people to get access to better outpatient services as currently rural clinics could only provide midwifery services.
Wed Feb 01 2017
Woman gives birth in APEC traffic chaos
The picture showed a policewoman and a second woman in civilian clothes holding a newborn partly wrapped in white cloth, an umbilical cord still attached.
Wed Nov 18 2015
Woman gives birth at police station, cop turns midwife
Hasliza Abdul Jalil, a 25-year-old cop, assisted the woman to deliver the baby in a car at about 1.15pm.
Wed May 13 2015
Eating placentas? US moms swear by health benefits
Health trends come and go, but one post-birth fad is gaining a foothold in the United States among some new mothers who extol the benefits of eating their own placentas.
Sat Feb 21 2015
British hit drama Downton Abbey leads way in TV exports
Britain in 2012 held on to its position as the world's second biggest exporter of television programmes after the US on the back of hit dramas such as Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife.
Fri Mar 22 2013