Almost one-third of births in the U.S. are delivered by cesarean section — or C-section. Surgical births are performed in the hospital, with a medical team present. Gentle C-sections allow you more ...

Cesarean sections to deliver babies are among the most common surgical procedures in U.S. hospitals. A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that Black women are almost 25 ...

Your experience of a planned C-section may differ from the emergency one. You may find it relieving or full of anxiety. The surgery requires you to follow standard protocols before it takes place. You ...

Four teams were assembled at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute to save a mother. — -- In any emergency medical procedure, doctors are quick to make a plan and jump into action. But for the ...

An Alexis wound retractor (AWR) “about the size of a dinner plate” was accidentally left in a woman’s abdomen after giving birth via c-section in 2020 Getty A surgical device “about the size of a ...

In case you didn’t know, the month of April is Cesarean Awareness Month. It’s a campaign done to help educate people about both the risks and benefits of surgical births. C-sections for first-time ...

The symptoms can occur months or even years after the surgery. Credit...Getty Images Supported by By Melinda Wenner Moyer Q: I had a C-section about a year ago, but my scar still sometimes hurts, ...

Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno photographed on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno was recently fined almost $90,000 for wrongfully ...

A woman in Italy has successfully given birth to a baby while undergoing brain surgery, thanks to a team of doctors from across several disciplines. The procedure happened in the Molinette hospital in ...

A surgical tool "the size of a dinner plate" was discovered and removed from inside a woman's abdomen 18 months after she had a caesarean section while giving birth to her child, health officials in ...

Israt Jahan, a 21-year-old student of Dhaka University, gave birth to a girl a year ago. Conceiving shortly after her ...