The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths has steadily declined nationally with improvements in pregnancy testing, ultrasound examination and outpatient treatments. Except in Florida, where  11 women bled to death due to an ectopic pregnancy in 2009-10 compared to 13 such deaths for the entire previous decade.  The state’s apparent upswing surprised Dr. William Sappenfield, director of the USF Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies and co-author of the recent report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  More…