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Published online 30 March 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060327-12
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Caesarean risks hard to pin down
Meeting stirs debate over rocketing rate of C-sections.
An expert panel convened to advise healthy women about the risks of caesarean sections concluded that they cannot do so, because there is so little hard evidence. But at least some specialists feel that the procedure should be discouraged.
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