Improving Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Rearranging Deckchairs on the Titanic
When the FDA isn’t busy rebutting the health claims of Cheerios, it sounds like these days they have their hands full with medical device approvals for modern enhancements to continuous electronic...
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Active Management of Newborn Transition: An Invisible and Untested Package of...
There’s a new study out in the current issue of Birth that bolsters the already remarkable body of evidence favoring skin-to-skin care (rather than placing the baby on a warmer or swaddling it) right...
View ArticleScience in the news: separating the good from the bad from the ugly
Especially in this era of Facebook and Twitter, pregnant women and those of us who influence their choices frequently come across news stories reporting on obstetric research. As with anything in the...
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The New GBS Cochrane Review: A Hot Mess!
Advocates for evidence based care feel our ears perk up when we hear about a new Cochrane systematic review. Cochrane Review = Evidence! Right? Indeed, systematic reviews represent the top of the...
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Straight to the source
Reports of new research studies can be found almost everywhere on a daily basis: On the nightly news, in mainstream magazines, in forwarded e-mails, on Facebook and Twitter feeds. But can these reports...
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Can we improve research by crowd sourcing peer review?
Since we launched six months ago, Science & Sensibility has become a multidisciplinary hub for analysis of research in maternity care. I’m proud that we have a childbirth educator, a consumer...
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Disputed Territory: A doctor reviews “Birth Territory and Midwifery...
This is a guest contribution from Katharine Hikel, MD. Dr. Hikel is a writer on women’s health for Medscape/WebMD. Peer-trained in feminist women’s health clinics, she is also a graduate of Harvard and...
View ArticleCherrypicking stats: bad form and not helpful
Science & Sensibility contributor, Andrea Lythgoe, has a great post up at her own blog. In The Doula Numbers Game, Andrea shows that many of us may be overestimating – and overstating – the...
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Becoming a Critical Reader: Bias, Bias Everywhere!
Pretty much everyone would agree that there is bias in research. Most people would say that bias is inherently bad. While it absolutely can be a bad thing, it can’t be completely eliminated. So what...
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Much ado about “levator microtrauma”: Do epidurals protect the pelvic floor?
The levator ani is a muscle, not a clinical outcome. Ok, ok, I’ve heard from enough of you about the study purportedly showing that epidurals protect the pelvic floor, I suppose it’s time to write up...
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