A survey of 57 teaching hospitals9 finds that only one in 14 routinely feeds their patients in a way that meets current guidelines for healthy meals. Researchers compared three daily menus from each hospital against standards set by the National Research Council's Committee on Diet and Health. The fat content was too high nearly 40 percent of the time. New England Journal of Medicine, November 7, 1996. Public Health.10 A research project on 1,750 aspirin consumers concluded that normal doses of aspirin, no matter what the form, increases GI bleeding by 300 percent.
Higher doses produce much more bleeding.
Aspirin produces serious bleeding in about 19 of every 100,000 people who take it each year, according to the study's author. The Lancet, November 23, 1996. Safe A series of reports published in the British Medical Journal11 suggest that home births are an equally safe alternative to hospital deliveries for a large percentage of women. One doctor who participated in two of the studies says that while pregnancies can have complications, they're not usually so sudden that women should be told not to have their baby at home. Some studies seem to indicate that home births can be safer for low-risk pregnancies.