News tagged with cesarean deliveries
Good news on multiple sclerosis and pregnancy
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 18, 2009 |
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There is good news for women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant. A new study shows that pregnant women with multiple sclerosis are only slightly more likely to have cesarean ...
Where physician completed obstetrical residency may provide quality-of-care indicator
Sep 22, 2009 |
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A ranking of obstetrics and gynecology training programs based on the maternal complication rates of their graduates' patients found these rankings consistent across individual types of complications, suggesting that these ...
Team finds labor induction need not increase cesarean risk
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Contrary to a belief widely held by obstetricians, inducing labor need not increase a woman's risk for cesarean section delivery in childbirth, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and the Stanford University ...
New system monitors fetal heartbeat: Noninvasive technique could prevent complications
Jun 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny fluctuations in a fetus’s heartbeat can indicate distress, but currently there is no way to detect such subtle variations except during labor, when it could be too late to prevent serious or even fatal ...
Study suggests obese women should not gain weight
May 29, 2009 |
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For years, doctors and other health-care providers have managed pregnant patients according to guidelines issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). In 1986, ACOG stated, "Regardless of how ...
Study able to predict which cesarean births could cause uterine rupture
Jan 30, 2009 |
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In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, researchers will unveil findings that show that by using a sonogram to measure the lower uterine segment (LUS) thickness, ...
Patience during stalled labor can avoid many C-sections, study shows
Nov 01, 2008 |
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Pregnant women whose labor stalls while in the active phase of childbirth can reduce health risks to themselves and their infants by waiting out the delivery process for an extra two hours, according to a new study by researchers ...
