Between 2003 and 2013, the United States was one of only eight countries that saw an increase in maternal mortality ...

Childbirth depends not just on hormones, but on the uterus’s ability to sense physical force. Scientists found that pressure ...

Materna Medical's Ellora Obstetrical System is designed to address a critical unmet need in labor and delivery--reducing pelvic floor injuries during vaginal birth. These injuries, often involving ...

It is important for cow-calf producers to understand each phase of the birthing process to know when it is time to intervene.

Molecular discoveries may help improve treatments for labor and pain. When labor starts, the uterus must produce steady, ...

Not all early contractions mean labor. Learn what preterm labor looks like, and when to call your provider to keep you and your baby safe.

The most common technique used for closing the uterus after a cesarean delivery causes so many long-term complications that it's time to question its use. That's the conclusion reached by two ...

The Senate confirmed former Rep. Anthony D’Esposito to serve as inspector general for the Department of Labor late Thursday — as Democrats quietly speculate he might have his eye on a return to ...

Ryu Lopez is quite literally a miracle baby. Ryu developed completely outside his mother's uterus, resting on his mother's vital organs in what doctors called a very rare abdominal ectopic pregnancy.

(A) Messages released by the embryo influence how fat droplets move and function in cells lining the uterus. Courtesy: Alisa Komsky-Elbaz and Eshel Dilevsky; (B) Fat droplets from uterine cells are ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell outlined how the central bank is viewing the labor market after it cut interest rates last week for the third straight time, with a fresh jobs report due out on ...

(KTLA) – A team of around 30 medical specialists huddled over a 41-year-old woman earlier this year in Los Angeles as they carefully delivered her nearly full-term baby, who had unknowingly developed ...