Word: caesarean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first reports to question the prevailing medical wisdom, four prominent doctors at Harvard Medical School (HMS) concluded that decreasing the percentage of caesarean deliveries may lead to greater risk for mothers and babies and higher costs for hospitals and patients...
After a year of gathering statistics and data from around the country, the four concluded that two of the major strategies used to increase normal deliveries are not always safe alternatives to the caesarean method. Their findings were published last week as part of an opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...four doctors called on the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to suspend efforts to reduce the percentage of caesarean births until the medical community can further monitor and evaluate the births...
...DHHS set an objective of decreasing the percentage of caesarean deliveries to 15 percent by 2000 after it hit a peak of 25 percent. Currently, about 21 percent of births are casearean deliveries...
...early stages of labor, which was the focus of last week's report. Many women find that it helps them to relax, to work through their contractions before the often tough job ahead. In addition, midwives have long believed that walking reduces the need for pain killers and Caesarean sections because it allows the birthing process to work with gravity...