Global Health Crisis

Before I was born my mother had a rather bad miscarriage and lost a close to full term baby boy due to eclampsia.  She does not remember to much about this so most of my info about this period comes from my father - my mother almost lost her life.
so when I came across http://www.engenderhealth.org/ I decided to blog about it.

You see this is not really an health issue for most American women, but it is a killer in the developing world.  The medication to treat this is rather simple and cheap - magnesium sulfate.  Here is the catch - because it is simple and cheap drug manufactures are not inclined to make or sell to the extent necessary - see the profit margin is just not there.

Perfect example of capitalism feeding on itself.

anyway, check out the article on eclampsia at

http://www.engenderhealth.org/ia/swh/eclampsia.html