Popular Press & Media Coverage
on topics of interest
~ healthcare, midwifery, childbearing & maternity services
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Controversies & News in Health Care
This week's pick for the Good,
the Bad and
the Ugly
Link to Breaking News
American Public
Health Association passes resolution calling for
Increasing
Access To Out-Of-Hospital Maternity Care Services
Through State-Regulated and Nationally-Certified Direct-Entry Midwives ~
This is a very
important acknowledgement of the safety of skilled midwifery, home-based
birth services and the value of NARM certification of direct-entry
midwives
National
Organization of Women's Resolution acknowledging
the right of healthy childbearing women to control the manner and
circumstance
of their labor and birth and to the choice of midwifery caregivers and
community-based birth services, including home birth
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Background
Material
"An
Introduction to the Aachen Declaration"
Aachen
Declaration ~
Progress
to date - 22 April 2001
General
Controversies &
News in Health Care
This week's pick for the
Good,
the Bad and
the Ugly
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Book Review
Excellent Book Review ~
Dr. Tom Strong, "Expecting Trouble", an
expose
on the failure of current obstetrician-dominated form of maternity care **
National Television Debate
Transcript and Rebuttal to Good Morning America's June 20th
program
on medically unnecessary elective c-sections to
avoid
the infrequent and non-fatal complications of normal childbirth,
with Dr. Marsden Wagner and Dr. Benson
Harer, president of
the
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
News About the Practice of Midwifery
ACDM letter to Aetna in reponse
Aetna US
Healthcare Denies Coverage for Home-based Birth Services,
terminates CNM for providing
domiciliary midwifery care
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