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Article: American College of Nurse-Midwives Calls for Accurate Reporting on New NIH Findings about Cesarean Delivery
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 30, 2006
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SILVER SPRING, Md., March 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Inaccurate or
misleading headlines and reporting about the recent NIH panel on
cesarean delivery for maternal request will exacerbate the harm
unnecessary surgery causes women, said the American College of Nurse-
Midwives (ACNM) today.
Coverage of the event by several major media organizations --
including The Washington Post, NBC's Today and Nightly News programs,
and others -- presented women with a distorted view of the National
Institute of Health's State of the Science findings, released
yesterday. Such reporting precludes a thorough understanding of the
complexity of this decision. In addition, the story is incomplete if
it ignores ...