Overlooked Drug Could Save Thousands Of Moms After Childbirth
An inexpensive drug could dramatically reduce the number of deaths of mothers from bleeding after childbirth in low- and middle-income countries around the world.
Back in the 1960s, a woman doctor in Japan created a powerful drug to help mothers who hemorrhage after childbirth.
The medicine is inexpensive to make. Safe to use. And stops bleeding quickly by helping keep naturally forming blood clots intact.
The drug's inventor, , hoped the drug called tranexamic
