Word: majority
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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...
...major risk of a trial of labor after caesarean delivery is that uterus may rupture during labor, which may result in substantial hemorrhage and require hysterectomy," the article said...
...Mothers are mortal," he said. "A caesarean delivery is a major surgical operation. There are mothers who die from caesareans...
...what makes me twitch and tremble is having to explain to everyone I know why I must be back in Cambridge on the fourth of January, and watching them gasp in shock and dismay upon hearing that I have yet to complete major portions of my work for the semester. In my opinion, the simple question "How long is your winter break?" is the worst one you can ask a Harvard student. Surely I am not alone in experiencing this painful ritual year after year...
...Another major concern is privacy. If screening reveals all the faults our flesh may be heir to, can that information be kept secret, so that it won't be used by potential employers or insurers to deny us a job or health coverage? Or, if we let our imaginations fly, by still other types of snoops--for example, an overzealous father eager to check out the genes of a potential son-in-law, just as he once might have checked the suitor's credit rating...