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        • Investing in the future: a clinical training programme for miscarriage
        • A national Tommy’s miscarriage trial platform
        • CONCEIVE: how does the health of your heart affect the risk of miscarriage?
        • Can bacteria affect the risk of miscarriage?
        • Can sitagliptin help increase stem cells in the wombs of women who have suffered recurrent miscarriages?
        • Does maternal age affect the timing and ease of birth?
        • Exploring new techniques to diagnose genetic problems in miscarriage
        • Get updated when we have referrals information ready
        • How does the immune system affect the chance of miscarriage?
        • Improving miscarriage support for women, partners and family
        • Looking at the lining of the womb to find out if a woman is at risk of miscarriage
        • MAVRIC - testing the abdominal stitch
        • Sickle cell disease and pregnancy
        • The ABPEP study - Finding ectopic pregnancies earlier
        • The EPOS study: following women throughout pregnancy to understand miscarriage
        • The PIEPE study: looking at the psychological effects of miscarriage
        • The PRECISE study: how to spot heart problems earlier in pregnancy
        • The PRISM trial - bleeding in early pregnancy and miscarriage
        • The SiM trial: can scratching the lining of the womb encourage healthy pregnancy?
        • The effect of sperm damage in miscarriage
        • Tommy's Net
        • Using fetal DNA to find reasons for miscarriage
      • ▽△Stillbirth research
        • Asking the right questions – setting the agenda for future stillbirth research
        • Assessing how healthy babies are when they start moving less than normal (FEMINA2)
        • Can low levels of taurine make stillbirth more likely?
        • Could beetroot juice be used to treat fetal growth restriction?
        • Diabetes and the risk of stillbirth
        • Does arrhythmia cause stillbirth in the babies of women with liver disease?
        • Does specialist care reduce the number of stillbirths?
        • Finding new treatments to improve placental function and prevent stillbirth
        • Improving pregnancy outcomes by engaging women in their own safety (the REACH-UK study)
        • Improving support in a pregnancy after stillbirth or neonatal death (the IMPS study)
        • Improving the management of early onset fetal growth restriction
        • Inflammation of the placenta as a cause of stillbirth
        • Inhibiting microRNAs in the placenta to reduce the risk of stillbirth
        • Is fetal growth restriction caused by failure of the placenta to adapt to nutrient demand?
        • Is there a relationship between bile acid levels and the risk of poor outcomes for babies of mothers with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP)?
        • MRI techniques to help prevent stillbirth
        • MiNESS – is there a link between stillbirth and a woman’s position going to sleep?
        • Monitoring babies’ movements using the FeHeMo vest
        • Older mothers and the ageing placenta
        • Older mothers and the risk of stillbirth
        • PARROT: using placental growth factor to tell if women are at high risk of pre-eclampsia
        • PITCHES: can UDCA help prevent stillbirth in women with liver disease?
        • PUFFIN: using MRI scans to detect complications of pregnancy hypertension
        • Pregnancy in severely obese women: the Edinburgh Antenatal Metabolic Clinic
        • Preventing stillbirth: the role of the immune system in rejecting the placenta
        • Reaching young women with smoking cessation messages
        • ▽△Research into fetal growth restriction
          • Can steroid injections improve blood flow to babies at risk of stillbirth?
          • The role of glutamine and glutamate in fetal growth restriction
          • The role of placental blood vessels in growth restriction and stillbirth
        • Stillbirth and fetal free haemoglobin
        • Targeting drugs to the placenta in high-risk pregnancies
        • Testing for microRNAs to find out when the placenta isn’t working
        • The AFFIRM trial for prevention of stillbirth
        • The DESiGN trial: does the growth assessment protocol (GAP) find which small babies are at risk?
        • The INVEST study: can a period of increased movement be a sign that something is wrong?
        • The Placenta Clinic
        • The Placental Assessment Predicting Pregnancy Outcome (PAPPO) study
        • The Rainbow Clinic
        • The Tommy’s Project: the reasons why pregnancy goes wrong
        • The effects of age on stillbirth
        • The impact of plasma exchange on severe liver disease in pregnancy
        • UPBEAT: using markers in the blood to tell which women are at risk of diabetes during pregnancy
        • Understanding the link between inflammation, the placenta and stillbirth
        • Undiagnosed lupus and unexplained stillbirth
        • Using MRI to study the placenta
        • Viagra: is it an effective treatment for stillbirth (STRIDER)
        • What is the best way of helping women with very early fetal growth restriction?
      • ▽△Premature birth research
        • A 'biobank' to study the genetics of premature birth
        • CLAHRC: a collaboration for leadership in applied health research and care
        • CRADLE: an easy, cheap way to measure blood pressure and detect pregnancy complications in rural communities
        • Can hormones in the gut cause diabetes during pregnancy?
        • Can markers in urine predict the onset of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy?
        • Control of hypertension in pregnancy (the CHIPS study)
        • Does HPV infection increase the risk of preterm birth?
        • Evaluating the impact of a new antenatal screening for gestational diabetes
        • Fetal DNA and preterm labour
        • Finding out who’s at risk: how can we predict preterm labour?
        • Finding ways of preventing preterm labour
        • Helping women with chronic heart and blood vessel problems to have safe, healthy pregnancies
        • How does the sperm of fathers with liver disease affect the health of their children?
        • Infection and fetal development
        • Influences in the womb on the fetal heart
        • Is it safe to use antipsychotics during pregnancy?
        • Is progesterone a cost-effective way to prevent preterm birth? (The OPPTIMUM trial)
        • Looking at inflammation in the womb
        • Low-cost methods of predicting premature births in rural communities
        • NifeDipine or Labetalol for treating existing high blood pressure during pregnancy (the PANDA study)
        • PEACHES: finding out how existing high blood pressure can cause pregnancy complications
        • Potassium channels: a new target for preventing premature birth?
        • Predicting gestational diabetes in obese pregnant women
        • Predicting premature labour using the body’s natural defences
        • Predicting premature labour: the link between vaginal infections and early birth
        • QUIDS - using fibronectin to find out which women with symptoms of preterm labour are at risk
        • Reducing preterm birth rates
        • STOPPIT-2: can the Arabin pessary prevent premature birth in twin pregnancies?
        • SuPPoRT: finding the best way to prevent preterm birth in women with short cervixes
        • Sunshine and healthy babies
        • The GRACES trial: comparing ways of treating diabetes in pregnancy
        • The PHOENIX trial: when should labour be induced in women who develop pre-eclampsia at 34–37 weeks?
        • The Preterm Trials Consortium: using long-term trials to answer difficult questions
        • The QUIPP app: helping doctors decide who is at risk of premature birth
        • The SCOPE study
        • The genetics of premature birth
        • The role of amyloid in pre-eclampsia
        • Tommy’s Reproductive Health Biobank
        • UPBEAT: how does obesity affect iron levels during pregnancy?
        • Understanding changes in the cervix before birth
        • Using ultrasound to diagnose infections during pregnancy
        • What impact does ‘mild’ ICP have on the baby?
        • Why does cervical damage cause preterm labour?
        • World Prematurity Day 2018
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          • Can a dietary supplement protect babies from the effects of maternal obesity?
          • High blood pressure in children of obese mothers
          • How does maternal obesity affect future generations?
          • Looking at blood in the umbilical cord to find the missing link between obesity in mother and child
          • Maternal Obesity and Offspring Diabetes (the MOOD study)
          • Metformin and its effects in pregnancy
          • Metformin doesn’t affect fat distribution in mother or baby
          • Stress and obesity in pregnancy: do stress hormones increase the risk of complications?
          • The EU EarlyNutrition study
          • The Edinburgh Antenatal Metabolic Clinic: following up the babies (the HAPPY study)
          • The HAPPY study: the effects of obese pregnancy on children aged 3-5
          • The UPBEAT trial: Results, Implications and Ongoing Studies
          • UPBEAT-TEMPO-HEART: how improving health during pregnancy could lead to healthier hearts in children
          • UPBEAT-TEMPO: does changing lifestyle during pregnancy affect children at age 3-4?
          • UPBEAT: body fat in UPBEAT babies
          • UPBEAT: breastfeeding and obesity
          • UPBEAT: finding out if we can help obese women give birth to babies with less body fat
          • UPBEAT: finding out which obese women will have uncomplicated pregnancies
          • UPBEAT: how does obesity affect blood loss after birth?
          • UPBEAT: how to predict gestational diabetes in obese women
          • UPBEAT: how to tell which babies are too large for their gestational age?
          • UPBEAT: is fat gain during pregnancy linked to diabetes in obese women?
          • UPBEAT: looking at the relation of mothers’ diets with social and demographic factors
          • UPBEAT: the UK Better Eating and Activity Trial
          • UPBEAT: why are some women with diabetes more likely to suffer pregnancy complications?
        • ▽△Pre-eclampsia research
          • Beetroot juice can reduce blood pressure in pregnancy: can we predict which women will respond?
          • Kynurenine as a potential treatment for women with pre-eclampsia
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          • Can bacteria affect the risk of miscarriage?
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          • Does maternal age affect the timing and ease of birth?
          • Exploring new techniques to diagnose genetic problems in miscarriage
          • Get updated when we have referrals information ready
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          • Looking at the lining of the womb to find out if a woman is at risk of miscarriage
          • MAVRIC - testing the abdominal stitch
          • Sickle cell disease and pregnancy
          • The ABPEP study - Finding ectopic pregnancies earlier
          • The EPOS study: following women throughout pregnancy to understand miscarriage
          • The PIEPE study: looking at the psychological effects of miscarriage
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          • Assessing how healthy babies are when they start moving less than normal (FEMINA2)
          • Can low levels of taurine make stillbirth more likely?
          • Could beetroot juice be used to treat fetal growth restriction?
          • Diabetes and the risk of stillbirth
          • Does arrhythmia cause stillbirth in the babies of women with liver disease?
          • Does specialist care reduce the number of stillbirths?
          • Finding new treatments to improve placental function and prevent stillbirth
          • Improving pregnancy outcomes by engaging women in their own safety (the REACH-UK study)
          • Improving support in a pregnancy after stillbirth or neonatal death (the IMPS study)
          • Improving the management of early onset fetal growth restriction
          • Inflammation of the placenta as a cause of stillbirth
          • Inhibiting microRNAs in the placenta to reduce the risk of stillbirth
          • Is fetal growth restriction caused by failure of the placenta to adapt to nutrient demand?
          • Is there a relationship between bile acid levels and the risk of poor outcomes for babies of mothers with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP)?
          • MRI techniques to help prevent stillbirth
          • MiNESS – is there a link between stillbirth and a woman’s position going to sleep?
          • Monitoring babies’ movements using the FeHeMo vest
          • Older mothers and the ageing placenta
          • Older mothers and the risk of stillbirth
          • PARROT: using placental growth factor to tell if women are at high risk of pre-eclampsia
          • PITCHES: can UDCA help prevent stillbirth in women with liver disease?
          • PUFFIN: using MRI scans to detect complications of pregnancy hypertension
          • Pregnancy in severely obese women: the Edinburgh Antenatal Metabolic Clinic
          • Preventing stillbirth: the role of the immune system in rejecting the placenta
          • Reaching young women with smoking cessation messages
          • Research into fetal growth restriction
            • Can steroid injections improve blood flow to babies at risk of stillbirth?
            • The role of glutamine and glutamate in fetal growth restriction
            • The role of placental blood vessels in growth restriction and stillbirth
          • Stillbirth and fetal free haemoglobin
          • Targeting drugs to the placenta in high-risk pregnancies
          • Testing for microRNAs to find out when the placenta isn’t working
          • The AFFIRM trial for prevention of stillbirth
          • The DESiGN trial: does the growth assessment protocol (GAP) find which small babies are at risk?
          • The INVEST study: can a period of increased movement be a sign that something is wrong?
          • The Placenta Clinic
          • The Placental Assessment Predicting Pregnancy Outcome (PAPPO) study
          • The Rainbow Clinic
          • The Tommy’s Project: the reasons why pregnancy goes wrong
          • The effects of age on stillbirth
          • The impact of plasma exchange on severe liver disease in pregnancy
          • UPBEAT: using markers in the blood to tell which women are at risk of diabetes during pregnancy
          • Understanding the link between inflammation, the placenta and stillbirth
          • Undiagnosed lupus and unexplained stillbirth
          • Using MRI to study the placenta
          • Viagra: is it an effective treatment for stillbirth (STRIDER)
          • What is the best way of helping women with very early fetal growth restriction?
        • Premature birth research
          • A 'biobank' to study the genetics of premature birth
          • CLAHRC: a collaboration for leadership in applied health research and care
          • CRADLE: an easy, cheap way to measure blood pressure and detect pregnancy complications in rural communities
          • Can hormones in the gut cause diabetes during pregnancy?
          • Can markers in urine predict the onset of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy?
          • Control of hypertension in pregnancy (the CHIPS study)
          • Does HPV infection increase the risk of preterm birth?
          • Evaluating the impact of a new antenatal screening for gestational diabetes
          • Fetal DNA and preterm labour
          • Finding out who’s at risk: how can we predict preterm labour?
          • Finding ways of preventing preterm labour
          • Helping women with chronic heart and blood vessel problems to have safe, healthy pregnancies
          • How does the sperm of fathers with liver disease affect the health of their children?
          • Infection and fetal development
          • Influences in the womb on the fetal heart
          • Is it safe to use antipsychotics during pregnancy?
          • Is progesterone a cost-effective way to prevent preterm birth? (The OPPTIMUM trial)
          • Looking at inflammation in the womb
          • Low-cost methods of predicting premature births in rural communities
          • NifeDipine or Labetalol for treating existing high blood pressure during pregnancy (the PANDA study)
          • PEACHES: finding out how existing high blood pressure can cause pregnancy complications
          • Potassium channels: a new target for preventing premature birth?
          • Predicting gestational diabetes in obese pregnant women
          • Predicting premature labour using the body’s natural defences
          • Predicting premature labour: the link between vaginal infections and early birth
          • QUIDS - using fibronectin to find out which women with symptoms of preterm labour are at risk
          • Reducing preterm birth rates
          • STOPPIT-2: can the Arabin pessary prevent premature birth in twin pregnancies?
          • SuPPoRT: finding the best way to prevent preterm birth in women with short cervixes
          • Sunshine and healthy babies
          • The GRACES trial: comparing ways of treating diabetes in pregnancy
          • The PHOENIX trial: when should labour be induced in women who develop pre-eclampsia at 34–37 weeks?
          • The Preterm Trials Consortium: using long-term trials to answer difficult questions
          • The QUIPP app: helping doctors decide who is at risk of premature birth
          • The SCOPE study
          • The genetics of premature birth
          • The role of amyloid in pre-eclampsia
          • Tommy’s Reproductive Health Biobank
          • UPBEAT: how does obesity affect iron levels during pregnancy?
          • Understanding changes in the cervix before birth
          • Using ultrasound to diagnose infections during pregnancy
          • What impact does ‘mild’ ICP have on the baby?
          • Why does cervical damage cause preterm labour?
          • World Prematurity Day 2018
        • Research by complication
          • Cholestasis research
          • Gestational diabetes research
          • Hypertension research
          • Mental health and wellbeing research
            • An interactive tool to help women decide whether to use antidepressants during pregnancy
            • Enjoy Your Bump: using online tools to improve mental wellbeing during pregnancy
            • Obesity and mental health in pregnancy
          • Obesity research
            • Can a dietary supplement protect babies from the effects of maternal obesity?
            • High blood pressure in children of obese mothers
            • How does maternal obesity affect future generations?
            • Looking at blood in the umbilical cord to find the missing link between obesity in mother and child
            • Maternal Obesity and Offspring Diabetes (the MOOD study)
            • Metformin and its effects in pregnancy
            • Metformin doesn’t affect fat distribution in mother or baby
            • Stress and obesity in pregnancy: do stress hormones increase the risk of complications?
            • The EU EarlyNutrition study
            • The Edinburgh Antenatal Metabolic Clinic: following up the babies (the HAPPY study)
            • The HAPPY study: the effects of obese pregnancy on children aged 3-5
            • The UPBEAT trial: Results, Implications and Ongoing Studies
            • UPBEAT-TEMPO-HEART: how improving health during pregnancy could lead to healthier hearts in children
            • UPBEAT-TEMPO: does changing lifestyle during pregnancy affect children at age 3-4?
            • UPBEAT: body fat in UPBEAT babies
            • UPBEAT: breastfeeding and obesity
            • UPBEAT: finding out if we can help obese women give birth to babies with less body fat
            • UPBEAT: finding out which obese women will have uncomplicated pregnancies
            • UPBEAT: how does obesity affect blood loss after birth?
            • UPBEAT: how to predict gestational diabetes in obese women
            • UPBEAT: how to tell which babies are too large for their gestational age?
            • UPBEAT: is fat gain during pregnancy linked to diabetes in obese women?
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              • We stood at the top of Mount Etna
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