In monthly meetings, Ms. Culver made doctors aware of their C-section rates compared with their peers’. She also hung “first ...

Children born using planned Cesarean section procedures may have a heightened risk of developing certain childhood cancers, according to the researchers. After studying the health of nearly 2.5 ...

Cassidy Arnold, a 33-year-old mom, died the day before Thanksgiving after experiencing complications from an emergency ...

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — A recent study is highlighting the need for less invasive surgical options for women with a prior C-section who subsequently need a hysterectomy. Dr. Daniel Gomez, a minimally ...

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and ...

Today, nearly 1 in 3 births in the United States are performed by cesarean section, and a growing number of those are planned rather than done in response to an emergency. Planned C-sections allow ...

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A comprehensive investigation released last week reveals that Black women are significantly more likely to undergo cesarean sections during childbirth than white women at the same hospitals, ...

The moment you find out you’re pregnant, the questions start flooding in. One of the biggest decisions you’ll face is how you want to deliver your baby. With C-section rates climbing and natural birth ...

Researchers suggest an association between cesarean sections during labor and recurrent preterm birth or mid-trimester loss in subsequent pregnancies, potentially due to cervical damage Study: ...

For women with a previous cesarean section, an intervention aimed at supporting decision making reduced perinatal and maternal morbidity compared with usual care, the Canadian PRISMA trial found. The ...