This Women's Health Week, we spoke with Dr. Vidanka Vasilevski from the Center for Quality and Patient Safety Research within Deakin's Institute for Health Transformation about her research published ...

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. March 30, 2009 — Eating a light diet during labor did not affect obstetric or neonatal outcomes or increase vomiting, according to the results of ...

The loss of hospital-based obstetric services can harm maternal and infant health More and more, people giving birth can’t count on their closest hospital having the specialized health care they need.

NATIONAL CITY, Calif. (KGTV) -- Paradise Valley Hospital in National City is closing its obstetrics, labor and delivery, and newborn nursing units amid a decline in new births. The hospital said it ...

A few years ago, when a young woman delivered her baby at Alleghany Memorial Hospital in Sparta, North Carolina, it was in the middle of a Valentine’s Day ice storm and the mountain roads out of town ...

According to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the number of obstetric units across the country is falling. Without them, the health and life of rural mothers ...

A new report from the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform reveals a startling reality for families in rural America: more than half of rural hospitals in this country (55%) do not offer ...

Expectant parents wait 40 weeks for the arrival of their new baby, but what if labor was induced one week earlier? Conventional wisdom holds that inducing labor at 39 weeks would be cost-prohibitive ...

Jan. 20 (UPI) --A few weeks ago, a woman gave birth at Hereford Regional Medical Center, a critical access hospital in the Texas Panhandle. Or, rather, the woman gave birth in the parking lot at ...

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