Preventing eclampsia (metabolic toxemia of late pregnancy): an interview with Tom Brewer, MD.(Interview)

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | November 1, 2004| | Copyright

Despite a century of research, American medicine offers as little today for the prevention and treatment of eclampsia (traditionally called toxemia) as it did a hundred years ago. This progressive and potentially fatal condition remains a leading cause of miscarriage, premature birth, and infant mortality in the United States and around the world. An estimated 50,000 women die every year from eclampsia.

The condition's name is derived from the Greek word eklampsia, which means a sudden flashing or onslaught, an appropriate term for the rapidly developing system failures that ...

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