Researchers have said that a small increase in number of skilled birth attendants in the world's poorest nations could save the lives of a substantial number of women and their babies. Study leader Linda Bartlett MD MHSc a faculty member in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health said that even deploying a relatively small number of midwives around each country could have a profound impact on saving maternal fetal and newborn lives. He said that their study shows that maternal mortality can be prevented even in the most difficult of places. In