Miscarriage news round-up: November catch-up

With vacation, I fell a bit behind, so these are stories from the last ten days in November:

• Australian doctor pioneering new testing for women dealing with recurrent miscarriage and unexplained infertility. By identifying high levels of a harmful type of "killer cell," he has been able to develop drug treatments to keep the levels under control, resulting in successful pregnancies.
• Smoking while pregnant increases the risk of miscarriage (and of birth defects), and West Virginia is doing something about it -- the state plans to begin with a seven month blitz of ads; if that doesn't work, they may introduce legislation. Apparently, more than 27% of pregnant West Virginians smoked last year. Has anyone seen the ads? I am not sold on the efficacy of any such legislation? What do you think?
• Cambodian woman suffers stress-induced stillbirth while in police custody. The articles all call it a miscarriage, but she was seven months pregnant, which I would think would render it a stillbirth.
• British woman miscarries while suffering work-related stress. It's hard to figure out what happened from the story, so I'll just post the article. Here, the woman appears to have been full-term (since November is referred to as the month after the baby was due, and the stress seems to have occurred in late October, with the loss coming on Halloween).
• Man who impregnated mistress accused of inducing miscarriage by slipping her RU-486. This story is disturbing on a lot of levels. Additional coverage here and here.