Midwives demand that pregnant women should be made to pay for epidurals!
If women demand epidurals during delivery even if not needed they should be asked to pay. This is the latest demand of midwives through the experts at Royal College of Midwives (RCM). They said that this would help stem the// growing number of women asking for the injection. About 20% of pregnant women in the UK have an epidural, which costs about £500 in a private maternity hospital.<...Disgruntled GPs and Midwives Squabble over Maternity Care.
New Zealand: Though there have been improvements in maternity care, specifically to section 88 of the contract, yet it is considered inadequate, due to which expectant mothers prefer care of midwives over general practitioners//. Proposed changes to maternity-care funding do not go far enough in bringing pregnant women back to family doctors, GPs say. Peter Foley, of the New Zealand M...Chinese Men Putting Wives at Risk of Early Death by Smoking
Chinese men are putting their wives at increased risk of long-term illness and early death by smoking, finds a study in this week's BMJ.// Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (passive smoking) is associated with a 15-35% excess risk of coronary heart disease and lung cancer. Environmental tobacco smoke may also be linked to stroke and other cancers, though evidence is scarce....Armed Forces Enroll Wives in Fighting HIV/AIDS
Can an injury caused due to a syringe used on an AIDS patient infect the injured with HIV? No, it won't. Because HIV must enter your body in sufficient quantity for you to get infected . That's another reason why it is almost impossible to get infected with HIV from a barber's razor. Is it true most of the women infected with HIV are prostitutes? Myth again! Most women infected with HIV a...