Will the NIH Panelists read the blogs and Twitter feeds? And should they?

by Amy Romano, CNM (Originally published on Science and Sensibility for Lamaze International on March 8)I spent the good part of today glued to the live webcast of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Develop Conference on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC). The agenda was packed with expert testimony on the findings of a systematic review of 35 studies involving over 660,000 women with

Are consumers at the bottom of the evidence pyramid?

by Amy Romano, CNM (Originally published on Science and Sensibility for Lamaze International)I have argued (here, here, and here) that strategies that involve increased participation by women and families in maternity care hold major potential for improving our rather dismal maternal and infant health outcomes.A study reported in the current issue of The International Journal of Gynecology &