http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Greenlandic families expecting a baby, often feel safest when care supports cultural elements such as being near to family, home environment and local traditions. Culturally sensitive maternity care, lessens the risk of non-compliance in expecting families and the desire for alternative care solutions can be reduced. This is shown in a new doctoral thesis at the Nordic School of Public Health NHV. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-cultural-greenlandic-families.html Health Mon, 13 May 2013 08:00:02 EST news287649688 (Medical Xpress)—A study from The University of Queensland has highlighted the tension doctors and midwives experience when supporting women's right to decide what happens to them and their babies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-mum-reveals-maternity.html Health Thu, 02 May 2013 07:20:02 EST news286697233 Cesarean delivery is the most common surgery in the United States, performed on 1.67 million American women annually. Yet hospital cesarean rates vary widely according to new research from the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-wide-variation-cesarean-delivery-hospitals.html Health Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:36:43 EST news281705796 (Medical Xpress)—Queensland mums-to-be who are considered to be overweight or obese are treated and perceived more poorly by maternity care providers because of their body weight, according to a new University of Queensland study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-overweight-obese-mothers-differently-health.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:20:01 EST news280569474 (HealthDay)—Women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are significantly more likely to receive an emergency cesarean section, have their infant admitted to a neonatal care unit, and incur significantly higher maternity care costs, compared to women without GDM, according to research published online Dec. 28 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-gestational-diabetes-ups-maternity-one-third.html Diabetes Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:32:59 EST news278073171 Nearly half of all pregnant women in Australia consult a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioner for pregnancy-related health conditions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-pregnant-women-alternative.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:13:10 EST news277715514 As an automatic piano chimed a wedding march, new mother Wang Dan walked down a red carpet towards a hospital room called the "White House", minutes after giving birth in a candlelit water pool. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-natural-birth-tough-china-caesarean.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:20:39 EST news276499231 Collaboration between medical and anthropological expertise can solve complex clinical problems in today's multicultural women's healthcare, shows Pauline Binder, a medical anthropologist, who will present her thesis on 1 December at the Faculty of Medicine, Uppsala University, Sweden. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-anthropological-expertise-multicultural-women-health.html Health Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:13:43 EST news273320004 A program delivering collaborative maternity care resulted in fewer cesarean deliveries, shorter average hospital stays and higher breast-feeding rates for mothers, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-maternity-results-cesarean-sections-shorter.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:00:16 EST news266491414 Twenty percent of U.S. women (18.7 million) ages 19-64 were uninsured in 2010, up from 15 percent (12.8 million) in 2000, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report on women's health care. An additional 16.7 million women were underinsured in 2010, compared with 10.3 million in 2003. The report estimates that once fully implemented, the Affordable Care Act will cover nearly all women, reducing the uninsured rate among women from 20 percent to 8 percent. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-twenty-percent-women-uninsured.html Health Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:13:32 EST news261371598 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Julia Hussein from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and colleagues assess the evidence for the effectiveness of interventions that aim to help pregnant women reach health facilities during an emergency in developing country settings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-evidence-emergency-obstetric-referral-interventions.html Health Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:00:14 EST news261157251 Queensland mums are being given the opportunity to have their voices heard on maternity care in Queensland. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-queensland-mums-maternity.html Health Tue, 01 May 2012 05:00:01 EST news255066417 (Medical Xpress) -- University of Arizona sociologist Louise Roth says the increasing number of cesarean deliveries negatively impacts the health of women and their children and health-care costs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-c-sections-ethnic-economic-disparities.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:50:01 EST news253777113 (Medical Xpress) -- The result of a major study comparing two methods of maternity care, commissioned by the HSE and conducted by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, has been published recently in the journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-maternity-published.html Health Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:43:36 EST news240846171 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Riitta Luoto and colleagues from the UKK Institute for Health Promotion Research, and University of Tampere, Finland, evaluate whether lifestyle interventions can reduce the risk of high birthweight babies and gestational diabetes amongst pregnant women at high risk for these outcomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-lifestyle-adverse-outcomes-pregnant-women.html Health Tue, 17 May 2011 17:51:18 EST news224873462