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• Troubling trend: The skyrocketing rate of C-sections

  Tue Feb 2, 2010
  • "I think what we need to realize is that the maternal and fetal mortality rates are way low in this day and age, in the US and other industrialized countries at least, because of the availability of c-sections when the intervention is necessary"

• Troubling trend: The skyrocketing rate of C-sections

  Tue Feb 2, 2010
  • while i understand you should be allowed to do what you want with your body - you are spending thousands of dollars on a medical procedure that is not necessary - and even if you are insured you are driving up the costs for the rest of us!

• Medical journal retracts flawed autism study

  Tue Feb 2, 2010
  • communities with lower interventions of pregnancy and birth tend to have lower rates of autism...just something to think about...

• Medical journal retracts flawed autism study

  Tue Feb 2, 2010
  • John in NW PA - maybe not so much u/s but look at the use of medications such as pitocin in l&d - we know that many children with autism have changes in how their brains respond to oxytocin (pitocin is the synthetic medication)...

• Common antibiotics tied to birth defects

  Mon Nov 2, 2009
  • Actually we know that Nitros should NOT be taken in the last trimester and IMHE i have seen a number of medics rx'ing it to women during that time telling them that it is no big deal - when it is - we know that they cause cardiac issues with the fetus...so that one does not shock me at all to put it …

• Polygamist sect abuse trials set to begin

  Mon Oct 26, 2009
  • wow - that is all that i can say

• Nearly half abortions around globe are unsafe

  Tue Oct 13, 2009
  • Hawaii2 - actually the US has the worse material and fetal outcomes of the developed nations - there are third world nations with better outcomes than ours - get your facts straight please. "They use midwives. No checkups for them."

• Official: Vaccine unlikely to have caused death

  Tue Sep 29, 2009
  • males ATM are not being vax'ed b/c it has not shown to prevent infection/transmission in them. Males do get genital warts (low risk) and anal/penal cancer from HPV (high risk strains) and both males and females can get mouth/throat cancer from the high risks strains as well.

• Few serious reactions to HPV vaccine

  Tue Aug 18, 2009
  • a parent can wave all vaccine legally here in the US some states make it hard but they cannot force you to vaccinate your child - and this included hospital given vaccines such as Hep B at birth.

• Few serious reactions to HPV vaccine

  Tue Aug 18, 2009
  • from this story "Such reports do not show the vaccine caused sickness or death, only that a patient became ill or died after receiving the vaccine." go to the FDA site and read what they have to say - women did not die from the vaccine itself at all!