Across the United States, Black women are three to four times as likely as their white peers to experience life-threatening pregnancy complications or die giving birth. Given that the U.S. maternal mortality rate of 32 deaths ...
Feb 2, 2024
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Cesareans are surging in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which has one of the world's highest rates with more than 50% of babies now delivered via surgery compared with only 32% on the U.S. mainland, according to a federal ...
Jan 10, 2024
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A team of researchers from Drexel University and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) studied how different circumstances of preterm birth may indicate the health of the parents and their surrounding community at a ...
Jan 4, 2024
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A 70-year-old woman in Uganda has given birth to twins after receiving fertility treatment, making her one of the world's oldest new mothers.
Dec 1, 2023
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Cesarean section (C-section) procedures have increased dramatically around the world in the recent decades. Overweight and obesity rates, common risk factors for pregnancy outcomes and for C-sections, are also on the rise—creating ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Rapid and effective bleeding control can be achieved using a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-cleared intrauterine vacuum-induced hemorrhage control device for both vaginal and cesarean births, according to a study published ...
Sep 26, 2023
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More than 34% of women in Australia have a cesarean birth, and a significant proportion of these happen in late labor when the fetal head is deep in the mother's pelvis and can be impacted which makes delivering a baby challenging ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Postpartum hemorrhage—severe bleeding after childbirth—is a leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide. There have been few innovations in treatment in recent years.
Feb 10, 2023
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More than 1 in every 10 births in the United States now occur prematurely, and the number of these more dangerous deliveries jumped by 4% during 2021, a new report from the March of Dimes shows.
Nov 17, 2022
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Women diagnosed with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa are five (500%) times more likely on average to have underweight babies, according to a comprehensive new study.
Jul 5, 2022
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