During the Monday, Dec. 22 episode of 'Today with Jenna and Friends,' Jenna Bush Hager shared that she made a birthing ...

Hospital labor costs may not be spiking the way they did during the height of the staffing crisis, but recent data shows the pressure isn’t letting up. Kaufman Hall’s “National Hospital Flash Report” ...

C-sections can be lifesaving, but sometimes the procedure can be overused. Data helped show how a hospital decreased its rates of the operation in healthy first-time mothers. By Sarah Kliff Times ...

Financial and social incentives can nudge doctors away from the operating room. By Sarah Kliff and Bianca Pallaro Sarah Kliff reported from Rochester, N.Y. Bianca Pallaro analyzed historical C-section ...

St. Luke’s University Health Network will temporarily close labor and delivery services at its Grand View campus in Bucks County starting Dec. 1, according to the network. The pause in service has ...

Did you know that in the Philippines, most women prefer the vaginal type of delivery since it is cheaper than cesarean section type of childbirth? Vaginal birth is the most common and safest type of ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Trial of Labor After Cesarean (TOLAC) is an alternative to iterative cesarean section. This study aimed to identify maternal-fetal factors associated with the outcome of TOLAC ...

More rural hospitals have closed or are planning to close their labor and delivery units in 2025 than in 2024, bringing the total number of closures since the end of 2020 to 116, according to the ...

PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Starting in December, a major Farmville hospital will no longer offer labor and delivery services, leaving its patients to travel over 50 miles if they want to ...

Objective: Cesarean deliveries are increasing rapidly worldwide. Although their primary indication is when vaginal delivery is not feasible, there appears to be an overutilization of this procedure, ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. NINA MOINI: On Thursdays, we feature the work of our regional reporters. We have them open their notebooks to talk in a bit more detail about a story they ...