Pennsylvania Court Rules Lay Midwife Can Continue Home Birth Practice
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled 5-2 on Friday that a Lancaster County, Pa.-based midwife was not practicing medicine without a license by assisting at home births, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The ruling lifts a cease-and-desist order from the medicalnewstoday.com |
European Perinatal Health Report Released By EURO-PERISTAT Project
Promoting healthy pregnancy and safe childbirth is a goal of all European health care systems. Despite progress in recent decades, mothers and their babies are still very much at risk during the perinatal period, which covers pregnancy, delivery, and the postpartum. The European Perinatal Health Report released by the EURO-PERISTAT project is the most comprehensive report on the subject to date and takes a new approach to health reporting. medicalnewstoday.com |
Today's Opinions And Editorials
A Better Remedy For Health Reform The Dallas Morning News The legislation before us does not reform the outdated and broken payment system the government uses to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients, (and it) ignores medical justice reform (Barton and Burgess, 7/20). medicalnewstoday.com |
National Healthcare Organization's New Catheterization Resource Is Beneficial To Millions
The National Association For Continence (NAFC) has released a new consumer educational resource, focusing on catheterization procedures and care in the United States... mnt.to |
Landmark Study Shows The Dramatic Results Of Applying Evidence Based Protocols By A Physician Led Bedside Wound Care Team In Nursing Facilities
Landmark Study published in Ostomy Wound Management September 2010, Vol. 56, Issue 9 demonstrates that patients receiving wound management under the VOHRA physician bedside wound care program, showed statistically significant decreases in wound-related hospitalization, decreased wound infection and 21 days faster healing times than comparison group patients... mnt.to |