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Study finds in women with prior cesarean, optimal gestational age for elective delivery is week 39

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that indicate that for women with prior delivery via ...

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Study finds pregnant women with prior cesarean choose the delivery method preferred by their doctor

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that women who have undergone one prior delivery via ...

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Repeat C-section before 39 weeks raises risk of neonatal illness

Women choosing repeat cesarean deliveries and having them at term but before completing 39 weeks gestation are up to two times more likely to have a baby with serious complications including respiratory distress resulting ...

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Review of 700,000 women reveals factors affecting vaginal birth after previous cesarean

A wide range of clinical and non-clinical factors can affect whether women go on to have a vaginal delivery after having a caesarean, according to two major reviews published in the August issue of the Journal of Advanced Nu ...

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created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers pinpoint reasons for dramatic rise in C-sections

(Medical Xpress) -- In one of the first studies to examine the reasons for the rising number of women delivering their babies by cesarean section, Yale School of Medicine researchers found that while half ...

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created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast

More interventions at delivery not linked to healthier newborns

In low-risk pregnant women, high induction and first-cesarean delivery rates do not lead to improved outcomes for newborns, according to new research published in the April issue of The Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Me ...

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created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists sequence gut microbes of premature infant

Scientists have for the first time sequenced and reconstructed the genomes of most of the microbes in the gut of a premature newborn and documented how the microbe populations changed over time.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists expect C-section rate to keep rising

(AP) -- More women will be giving birth by C-section for the foreseeable future, government scientists said Monday, releasing a study into the causes of a trend that troubles maternal health experts.

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created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New guidelines aim to reduce repeated C-sections

(AP) -- Most women who've had a C-section, and many who've had two, should be allowed to try labor with their next baby, say new guidelines - a step toward reversing the "once a cesarean, always a cesarean" policies taking ...

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created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Overtreated: More medical care isn't always better

(AP) -- More medical care won't necessarily make you healthier - it may make you sicker. It's an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe.

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created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating

(AP) -- Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans - maybe even President Barack Obama - are being overtreated.

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created Mar 12, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Panel questions 'VBAC bans,' advocates expanded delivery options for women

An independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health confronted a troubling fact that pregnant women currently have limited access to clinicians and facilities able and willing to offer a trial of ...

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Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening

(AP) -- Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, ...

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created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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