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		<title>Cancer Treatment and Health Care Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One argument you may hear against health care reform concerns cancer survival rates. The United States has higher cancer survivor rates than countries with national health care systems, we&#8217;re told. Doesn&#8217;t this mean we should keep what we&#8217;ve got and not change it?
Certainly cancer survival rates are a critical issue for people suffering from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.drgreene.com/perspectives/2009/11/06/cancer-treatment-and-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<title>Green Living: Avoiding Asbestos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Going green used to be considered expensive and a luxury for those who could afford the trend. Now it appears that we are learning that not only is adopting more environmentally conscious attitudes good for our economic situation, but also our&#8230;.health? Yes, if we dig a bit deeper we can see that dirty industries and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.drgreene.com/perspectives/2009/11/05/green-living-avoiding-asbestos/</link>
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		<title>Could YouTube Change Our Birth Culture?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get to go to births much anymore. My midwifery practice closed in July. Our consulting doctors merged with another group and in the merger were forced to stop accepting our referrals and collaborating on VBACs. As a result of that we had to forfeit our hospital privileges. We would have continued offering only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.drgreene.com/perspectives/2009/11/04/could-youtube-change-our-birth-culture/</link>
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		<title>Preventing a Preventable Cesarean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, one in three babies will be born by cesarean section. The cesarean rate in the United States has hit a historic high every year for nearly a decade, and shows no signs of abating. Research from the World Health Organization suggests that when a cesarean rate is higher than 15% in any population, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.drgreene.com/perspectives/2009/11/03/preventing-a-preventable-cesarean/</link>
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		<title>Birth Plans As Exit Signs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter were bustling last week with back-to-back stories of doctors putting the kibosh on women&#8217;s right to self-determination in their birth. First, The Unnecesarean reported on a doctor who preemptively gives his own (awful) birth plan to all of his patients, and one woman&#8217;s triumphant experience firing him and hiring a midwife. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.drgreene.com/perspectives/2009/11/02/birth-plans-as-exit-signs/</link>
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		<title>Why Are Women Giving Birth in the Dark?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pop quiz: what is the most important factor determining whether a woman has a cesarean or not? How healthy she is? How big her baby is? Whether she has pregnancy complications? These all seem like reasonable answers, but the research tells a different story.
A large body of literature suggests that where a woman gives birth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.drgreene.com/perspectives/2009/10/30/why-are-women-giving-birth-in-the-dark/</link>
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		<title>Expecting More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you had your baby in a United States hospital in 2005:

There&#8217;s a 1 in 3 chance you had cesarean surgery.
There&#8217;s less than a 2% chance that you experienced a package of evidence-based care practices known to ease labor and prevent complications.
You most likely were separated from your baby during the first hour after giving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.drgreene.com/perspectives/2009/10/29/expecting-more/</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Things You Can Do to Protect Your Family and the Planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Educate yourself about endocrine disruptors, and educate your family and friends. Read the novel or other books (like Our Stolen Future: www.ourstolenfuture.com) and share them with others. I wrote a fact-based eco-thriller, because I wanted to share these issues with people in a way that was entertaining as well as informative and that allows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.drgreene.com/perspectives/2009/10/23/top-ten-things-you-can-do-to-protect-your-family-and-the-planet/</link>
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		<title>Will my Child get Sick?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do some children and adults get sick from these chemical contaminants and others do not? This is an important question that has to do with genes, chemical cocktails, and even possibly stress.
While I was researching my novel, I posed this question to John Peterson Myers, co-author of the pioneering and now classic, Our Stolen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.drgreene.com/perspectives/2009/10/22/will-my-child-get-sick/</link>
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		<title>One Fish, Two Fish, Boy Fish or Girl Fish?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 27, 2009, Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times reported that over 80% of the male smallmouth bass swimming in the Potomac River had eggs. You read that right, male fish having eggs. Well, unless a lot has changed since my biology class, males are not supposed to have eggs. Unfortunately a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.drgreene.com/perspectives/2009/10/21/one-fish-two-fish-boy-fish-or-girl-fish/</link>
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