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    Keeping an eye on natimortality

    by Alfredo Vannacci 11/11/2025
    by Alfredo Vannacci 11/11/2025

    In the United States, the rate of fetal death in utero after 20 weeks, known as stillbirth or stillbirth in English, is back on the rise, reaching 5.7 per 1,000 …

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    The time I was closest to giving life was also the time I was closest to death

    by Alfredo Vannacci 28/10/2025
    by Alfredo Vannacci 28/10/2025

    In an interview with The Guardian, Florence Welch, lead singer and songwriter of Florence + The Machine, spoke for the first time about the extrauterine pregnancy she experienced in the …

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    Assisting Perinatal Death 2023 – The Notebook

    by Alfredo Vannacci 02/05/2023
    by Alfredo Vannacci 02/05/2023

    The new edition of “Assisting Perinatal Death – The Notebook,” aimed at hospital perinatal health professionals and obstetrics, gynecology and nursing students, is out. The notebook released in 2018 was …

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    Protecting pregnancy from the Delta variant: update on COVID-19 vaccination

    by Alfredo Vannacci 29/11/2021
    by Alfredo Vannacci 29/11/2021

    Almost two years have passed since the start of COVID-19 pandemic and despite so much progress and many achievements, unfortunately we are still far from tranquility. In particular, public health …

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    Monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy

    by Alfredo Vannacci 24/10/2021
    by Alfredo Vannacci 24/10/2021

    Are you pregnant or breastfeeding and have you received or are about to receive the first dose or booster dose (booster or third dose) of the COVID-19 vaccine ? You …

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    CiaoLapo Shareholders’ Meeting 2021

    by Alfredo Vannacci 13/06/2021
    by Alfredo Vannacci 13/06/2021

    The national assembly of the members of CiaoLapo is convened in first call for June 27 at 11.30 pm and in second call for Monday 28 June from 14:00 to …

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    Why CiaoLapo – the words of his dad

    by Alfredo Vannacci 24/06/2015
    by Alfredo Vannacci 24/06/2015

    CiaoLapo was born in 2006 in memory of my son Lapo who was the victim on March 13, 2006 of an unexpected intrauterine death at the end of an apparently …

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    Preeclampsia: a syndrome with many causes

    by Alfredo Vannacci 01/03/0202
    by Alfredo Vannacci 01/03/0202

    Preeclampsia is a major complication of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension and organ damage. Although it has been known for centuries, its causes remain partly mysterious. A recent study published in …

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CiaoLapo is an Italian non-profit association that has worked on perinatal bereavement since 2006. It was founded by Claudia Ravaldi, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and Alfredo Vannacci, physician and pharmacologist. CiaoLapo offers psychological support and care to families facing the complex and painful experience of the death of a baby during pregnancy or after birth, for any reason and at any gestational age.

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