Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery ...

In addition to pain control during labor, a major concern is how to provide anesthesia for women with low platelet counts who require cesarean delivery. In normal-risk women, spinal or epidural ...

Older mothers are more likely to give birth prematurely or suffer complications, warns new research. Giving birth to a child after the age of 40 is becoming more common, but it can entail an increased ...

Oct 24 (Reuters) - Severe complications from childbirth, including heart attacks and strokes, have been rising in the United States, although they still remain rare overall, according to a U.S.

An artificial intelligence-based tool can predict the medical trajectories of individual premature newborns from blood ...

ELGIN, S.C. - A 31-year-old South Carolina mother died from complications of COVID-19 just weeks after giving birth to her fourth child. Sara Caitlin Vilchez was diagnosed with COVID-19 38 weeks into ...