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Surprises in a new study of maternal deaths
Scratch that last post. It appears that societies around the world are working to improve the survival rate for mothers in birth after all -- and that their efforts are working. Even as I was tapping...
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There is no arguing with death, except through art. Here is a poem I found through an Art of Medicine essay by physician-writer Caroline Wellbery MD in the Lancet. She uses it to talk about the value...
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Pushing back against home-birth critics
British and Australian midwives are pushing back against a recent editorial in The Lancet, a British medical journal, which builds on a study released last month that appears to show that home births...
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In his excellent review of Annie Murphy Paul's new book, Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives in the New York Times Book Review on Sunday, physician/author Dr. Jerome...
View ArticleKeeping track of maternal mortality
From the issue of The Lancet published today: There is little hope of obtaining precise estimates of maternal mortality rates, as we do for under-5 mortality, for instance. The sources of data are...
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