We are delighted to announce that we will be running all three of our exising online courses during April and May 2018 as well as launching our brand-new online course, Gathering in the Knowledge, which will run from May 4-11, 2018.…
In my blog post about the updated UK guidance on preventing early onset group B strep (GBS) disease (Hughes et al 2017), I mentioned that there was a call for all pregnant women to be provided with appropriate information about…
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has published an update to their guidance on preventing early onset group B strep (GBS) disease. The guidance calls for all pregnant women to be provided with appropriate information about GBS to support…
These courses have all now ended, but we’re leaving this post up so you can see some of the courses that we’ll be offering in 2018! For details of all current courses, click here. ******* We are delighted to announce that…
“To study neonatal Streptococcal B infection is to enter the realm of mysteries… How to explain that microbes from maternal origin may be pathogenic for the baby? Several decades ago, we learned that, compared with the placenta of other mammals,…
I am very happy to announce the birth of my latest online course, Group B Strep Explored! Our online courses run on set dates, usually in the spring and autumn. You can see if we have current dates open on…
The past couple of years have seen more germ-related research, thinking and discussion than ever, and there is a noteable swing away from the one-sided view that germs are ‘bad’ things to be avoided and washed away with antibacterial soap…
A study which will be published in the BJOG has given us more information about the way in which antibiotics given in labour – for example as prophylaxis for group B strep, caesarean section or because of pre-labour rupture of…
“To study neonatal Streptococcal B infection is to enter the realm of mysteries… How to explain that microbes from maternal origin may be pathogenic for the baby? Several decades ago, we learned that, compared with the placenta of other mammals,…
I’ve been researching and writing about group B streptococcus (GBS) and early-onset GBS disease all summer (Wickham 2014), and this has entailed having lots of conversations – both verbal and written – with women who have made different decisions in…