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Editorial
. 2012;9(3):e1001197.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001197. Epub 2012 Mar 27.

New research on childbirth has the potential to empower women's decision making, but more is needed

PLoS Medicine Editors
Editorial

New research on childbirth has the potential to empower women's decision making, but more is needed

PLoS Medicine Editors. PLoS Med. 2012.

Abstract

The PLoS Medicine editors discuss new research studies on the risks associated with mode of childbirth following caesarean section.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors' individual competing interests are at http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. PLoS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLoS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salary is not linked to the number of papers published in the journal).

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