Topic: Prenatal Health, Labor and Delivery
AP News | 2010-03-09 07:05:03
HEALTHBEAT: Jump in obesity, C-sections may be playing role in childbirth-related deaths
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, she dropped dead from a blood clot. Pregnancy-related deaths like Coale ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-24 07:18:26
LONDON (Reuters) - Women who get pregnant through in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) have a higher risk of stillbirth, scientists have found, although the overall risk is still low. Researchers from Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark studied 20,000 single pregnancies and found a fourfold increased risk of stillbirths for women who had IVF or ICSI compared ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-18 19:08:50
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who attempt vaginal childbirth after having several babies by cesarean section may not have a greater risk of complications than women who've had only one prior C-section, a new study suggests.</p><p>At one time, doctors believed that once a woman had a ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-12 21:37:57
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study in nearly 70,000 pregnant women has found no link between migraine drugs called triptans and the risk of birth defects.</p><p>However, the researchers did find a "slight increase" in the risk of excessive bleeding during labor, and the failure of the ...
