This article discusses the risks of infant vaccinations. Lists warning signs of high risk children who should not be administered vaccinations. Calls on the government to offer compensation plans for vaccine damaged children.
Presents the International Confederation of Midwives' position statement regarding vaginal births and elective caesarean sections. PDF required to read.
Women's health issues have in recent years become the focus for an unprecedented degree of sophisticated technologic incursion. While much of rapid technologic advances, confined as it largely is to the richest societies of the globe, has perhaps enabled women to hold their place in the workforce, it has also taken the natural biological processes from the quiet path of individual lives and put them into the hands of expert management. Women's health is now similar to other consumer goods, available for purchase alongside the many commodities of the modern urban lifestyle.
Examines the issues arising from prenatal genetic screening programs and provides an example of the new type of health technology assessment (HTA) contribution emerging in health policy development.