Birth in Asia — The WHO survey
The rising rate of birth by Caesarean sections has hit Asia, with China reporting that 46 percent of its births now end in surgery, according to a global survey by the World Health Organization...
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Surprises in a new study of maternal deaths
Scratch that last post. It appears that societies around the world are working to improve the survival rate for mothers in birth after all -- and that their efforts are working. Even as I was tapping...
View ArticleFour good trends for the world’s women
"Women have long delivered for society, and, slowly, society is at last delivering for women. This is a moment to celebrate—and accelerate," The Lancet editor-in-chief Richard Horton wrote in a...
View ArticleEarly stirrings of the germ theory
The germ theory of disease, which holds that certain diseases are caused by living organisms, occurred to people thousands of years ago, but it was proved only in the 19th century. In the western...
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