In the UK, women have more choices about how to give birth than ever before, from a water birth at home to a caesarean delivery in hospital. But ...

Giulia M. Muraca, PhD, MPH, and Maya Rajasingham, BSc, discuss new data comparing neurodevelopmental outcomes in children born via second-stage cesarean and assisted vaginal delivery. In this ...

A new population-based cohort study of more than 500,000 births in British Columbia offers reassuring evidence about the long-term safety of cesarean delivery and assisted vaginal delivery (with ...

Police officers in Bergen County delivered a baby boy late Tuesday night, minutes after arriving at the scene. Carlstadt police officers were dispatched at 11:55 p.m. to the home of a 26-year-old ...

Objective: When spontaneous vaginal delivery is not feasible, Instrument-assisted vaginal delivery (IVD) is utilized, which often involves the use of vacuum extractors (VE) and obstetric forceps. This ...

Thanks to £1.5m funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the device called BirthGlide will be used in Liverpool Women’s Hospital later this year in a project led by ...

Kevin Díaz purports to correct the record on “medical aid in dying” (Letters, Dec. 27). The thrust of his argument: Anorexia can’t be a qualifying condition because it is illegal. If MAID deaths ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A 77-year-old woman died last year after she repeatedly fell and remained on the ground for hours without help inside her home at a Northglenn assisted ...

A Canadian actress and comedian is seeking a medically assisted suicide after a long-term battle with several crippling mental health issues, according to reports. Claire Brosseau, 48, is suing for ...

Objectives: Clavicle fractures are the most common birth-related fractures. They may cause pain, arm mobility impairment, and brachial nerve injury (temporary or definitive). Therefore, we aimed to ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed legislation that will allow eligible terminally ill adult patients to obtain life-ending medication in consultation with their doctors, making Illinois the ...