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...1970s has the practice been such a hot topic--or so hotly contested. While home birthing still accounts for less than 1% of U.S. births, there's a movement afoot to license more lay midwives to attend home births. Concerned by this development, the American Medical Association (AMA) is urging lawmakers to curb the home-birthing movement, including having the licensing of so-called direct-entry midwives--who do not have nursing degrees--overseen by a state medical-practitioner board...
...obstetricians alarmed. "Unless there's ready access to certain emergency personnel and equipment and even surgery, you're potentially endangering babies' and moms' health and lives," says Dr. Erin Tracy, an ob-gyn at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital who authored two anti-home-birth resolutions approved by the AMA in June. "We've all seen scenarios where mothers came in, after very major blood loss, in a very catastrophic state," she says. "By the time they arrive in the hospital, you're sort of behind the eight ball in trying to resuscitate these patients. The same thing with neonatal...
...longer afford. That's why obesity experts believe that not only does the message have to be delivered but it also has to be delivered in a way that is sure to get through. In 2007 a group of pediatric-obesity experts convened by the American Medical Association (AMA) and co-funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report on childhood obesity, which included a strong argument that the language of weight gain had to change. A decade ago, kids whose body mass index (BMI) tracked...
...idea behind the language discussion in the recommendations, says Dr. Samantha Rosman, a fellow in pediatric emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center and a trustee of the AMA, was to make sure parents hear what their kids' doctors are telling them. "The stronger wording was a call to action," Rosman says. "This is a really important health problem that has the potential to be devastating to our society if we don't do something about...
...performing next year, leaving the future of the event uncertain. One can only hope that a new guard of performers such as Campbell, McNulty and Valides Fernandez will keep the tradition alive and continue to breathe new life into Harvard’s lacking music scene. —Ama R. Frances contributed to the reporting of this story