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...study suggests that women who take more than a year to conceive, even those who end up having babies the old-fashioned way, have a greater than normal risk of giving birth prematurely, having a baby with low birth weight or needing a caesarean section. This news comes from a large study--the first of its kind--published in Human Reproduction, of 56,000 women in Denmark. According to Dr. Olga Basso, the lead author, the chance of having a preterm baby was 7.4% for first-time mothers who took longer than a year to get pregnant--about 40% higher...
...Mahkota Medical Centre, Melaka This 356-bed hospital offers homely hostel rooms in the same block for visiting family members. The center's specialties include affordable caesarean delivery and open-heart surgery. Outpatients might want to consider Mahkota's three-day/two-night health-screening packages, which include tours of the historic town and even transportion to a local golf course...
...highest concentration of Roma, still fail to obtain informed consent or to advise Roma patients of other options, such as contraceptives. Their actions, the report contends, are fueled by fears, widespread in Slovakia, of Roma overpopulation, as well as the belief of many Slovak doctors that repeat deliveries via caesarean section can be dangerous - hence the recommended sterilization after two or three such deliveries. Indeed, the CRR finds that medical practitioners "appeared to unnecessarily and irresponsibly perform C-sections on Romany women at least in part as a pretext for sterilizing them." The CRR also reports "systematic and glaring racial...
...Percentage of U.S. babies delivered via caesarean section last year...
It’s not often that an author’s name encapsulates the essence of his work, but due to his birth by caesarean section three months prematurely, Keret’s does. Because of his unusual birth—doctors said he would be still-born—they named him Etgar, which means “challenge” in Hebrew. His last name means “big city.” So his full name means “urban challenge.” “They can name sneakers after...