(HealthDay)—New mothers who take opioid painkillers after either vaginal birth or cesarean section may be at increased risk of becoming persistent users, a new study finds.
Jan 4, 2019
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Vanderbilt researchers have published findings indicating that regardless of whether a woman delivers a child by cesarean section or by vaginal birth, if they fill prescriptions for opioid pain medications early in the postpartum ...
Dec 14, 2018
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Make no mistake: Cesarean deliveries are major surgery. They can save lives, but even so a woman runs the risk of bleeding, infection, a longer and costlier hospital stay—and more cesareans with future pregnancies. But ...
Dec 11, 2018
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Antibiotic prophylaxis regimens are becoming less effective at preventing surgical site infections following colorectal surgery, researchers at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy and Princeton University ...
Nov 26, 2018
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Despite the conventional belief that for women giving birth "once a cesarean always a cesarean," vaginal delivery after cesarean—also known as "trial of labor after cesarean delivery" (TOLAC)—offers a safe option for ...
Oct 25, 2018
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Cesarean-born mice show altered patterns of cell death across the brain, exhibiting greater nerve cell death than vaginally delivered mice in at least one brain area, a finding by Georgia State University researchers that ...
Oct 15, 2018
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(HealthDay)—The number of women delivering babies via cesarean section has nearly doubled worldwide since 2000, to about 21 percent, new research shows.
Oct 12, 2018
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Inducing labor in healthy first-time mothers in the 39th week of pregnancy results in lower rates of cesarean sections compared with waiting for labor to begin naturally at full term, according to a multicenter study funded ...
Aug 8, 2018
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A mother's diet during pregnancy may have an effect on the composition of her baby's gut microbiome—the community of bacteria living in the gut—and the effect may vary by delivery mode, according to study published in ...
Jul 4, 2018
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The increasingly popular practice of 'vaginal seeding'—in which cesarean-delivered babies are immediately swabbed with the mother's vaginal fluids—is declared unjustified and potentially unsafe in a new critical review ...
May 30, 2018
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