Health and Medicine in the News

Headline:

Childbirth: More women using pain medication

Newspaper Article Synopsis:

More American women are using regional anesthesia during labor than ever before. A survey of 750 hospitals found that the rate of epidurals rose from 22 percent in 1981 to 66 percent in 1997.

Newspaper Article Source:

News Services. Childbirth: More women using pain medication. Star Tribune, 1999 October 13: A3(col. 1-2).

Newspaper Article Referred to:

Author(s): Unidentified researchers Title: A meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists
(Dallas, TX)

lam /10/13/1999