The Myth of A Safer Hospital Birth for Low Risk Pregnancies

'Is Hospital birth ever safer than homebirth for low risk women?


The answer is an unequivocal 'no’.


There are 12 high quality studies since 1995 (1-12) from Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, US, UK, New Zealand and Israel, which all show planned attended homebirth to have either lower or similar rates of perinatal mortality and very significantly lower rates of maternal morbidity, such as cesareans, hemorrhage, and third and fourth degree tears compared to matched groups of low risk women who plan to deliver in hospital.'




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Cancers, Infectious Diseases, and Lifestyle Illnesses: Why "Miracle Drugs" Are the Problem, Not the Solution

 

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'The medical industry's obsession with bigger, more powerful (and above all, patentable!) medicines may lead to killer pandemics.'

'We frequently discuss the global threat of superbugs - drug-resistant bacteria, which are created in two ways:

• If a drug can kill, say, 95% of bacteria, the 5% that remain are by definition much stronger than the others, not killed by current medicines, and can then reproduce without any interference or competition from other bacteria, allowing them to quickly take over.


• Drugs target specific bacterial proteins, so any new mutation in these proteins will interfere with or negate the drug's destructive effect, resulting in antibiotic resistance. Drug resistance is a natural response to pressures imposed on any living organism: you must adapt, or you die. Many adapt. Many become resistant to more than one drug, making them even harder to kill.' 
 

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