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More U.S. women dying in childbirth
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by angryindian | August 25, 2007 at 03:13 pm
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Yet another scandal of American health-care. _ The Angryindian
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ATLANTA - U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame.Some numbers crunchers note that a change in how such deaths are reported also may be a factor.
“Those of us who look at this a lot say it’s probably a little bit of both,” said Dr. Jeffrey King, an obstetrician who led a recent New York state review of maternal deaths.
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at 17:01 on August 25th, 2007
First came the Associated Press article "US Slipping in Life Expectancy Rankings" on August 12, and now this. What ever next?
at 10:37 on August 26th, 2007
Sometimes, there is no clear explanation for a woman’s death.
Valerie
Scythes, a 35-year-old elementary schoolteacher, died in March at a
hospital in New Jersey — the state with the highest Caesarean section
rate. She had had a C-section, as did another teacher at the same
school who died after giving birth at the same hospital two weeks later.
However,
Scythes died of a blocked blood vessel and the other woman died from
bleeding, said John Baldante, a Philadelphia attorney investigating the
death for Scythes’ family.
what is the American scandal or is this another five percenter rant?
at 06:04 on August 28th, 2007
What was the point of that last line, and what would any of that have to do with women enduring an inexcusable lack of prenatal care in the richest and supposedly "best" colonialist nation on Earth?