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How medical screenings cause harm

“Today, […]most healthy laboring women are screened with fetal heart monitors for early brain asphyxia in fetuses, which might be relieved by cesarean section. Yet despite a five-fold increase in C-sections since the screening became routine, cerebral-palsy rates in babies remain unchanged.”

Posted byDanny SilvermanNovember 29, 2006Posted inAside

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