Sleep and Health Journal

Why Women Die After Giving Birth: Part 1

By Louis Keith, MD, PhD

It is no real news that women sometimes die after giving birth, but this fact does not capture headlines, especially in October of each year which is designated “Breast Awareness Month”. Rather, the media is full of grim statistics of how the medical community is exhausting every possibility to fight breast cancer but could do ever so much better if the public gave more money to the various campaigns that support research in this specific area.