Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section

March 10, 2010, 5:14 am by Associated Press Healthwire

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."...

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