By the time the woman arrived at the hospital, she had nearly bled to death.  She went into labor on a warm September day earlier this year, and made the trek from her rural village in the small West African country of Gambia to a nearby clinic. The baby was delivered successfully, but after the birth, the nurses at the clinic couldn’t stop the mother’s bleeding. She suffered from a complication in which her placenta — which is normally expelled after labor — clung to her uterus, preventing the blood vessels that once nourished her child from closing properly. When she arrived at the...

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