According to an article in the BBC, the British group Sands is calling for the British government to take greater action in researching causes of stillbirths and what can be done to prevent them. The group has issued a new report called "Saving Babies' Lives" that asserts many stillbirths to be preventable and decries the fact that stillbirth rates have not dropped much in the past few decades.
There have been several such awareness announcements in the past year, and I know that there's been a push for researchers to learn more about this. More knowledge is needed, given that many stillbirths are never explained and many are believed to be preventable. One would hope that in the rush to reform healthcare in the US that someone would be paying attention to the problem of stillbirths, which, as the article points out, far exceed the numbers even of sudden infant death syndrome.
