WEEK 15 March 27th to April 2nd

   MISCARRIAGES INCREASING IN WESTERN, DEVELOPED NATIONS

   The percentage of miscarriages in a number of European and developed nations, have now reached nearly 20. This concerns any given woman’s first child. For an eventual second child the changes of miscarriage is increased to 25 percent.
   The really worrying aspect of this, is that the increase is happening in developed countries, with thorough health care systems and a population seen as generally healthy.
   But this view, as recent research is showing, could be false. A number of developments lately, are more than suggesting that both mentally and physically, people in developed nations, are not much better off than the rest of the world. In some cases worse off. This in spite of hunger, poverty and strife in Africa, Asia and South America. The emerging picture is that the more technological advanced a given place may be, the more ill and frail are the inhabitants. Massive use, and increase in the use, of medicine the last 50 years has hidden this fact until recently, where drugs have been shown to lose their potency as «wonder medicine» and indeed been revealed to cause a substantial amount of the problems.