Birth simulator helps physicians I.D. least forceful way to manage problem deliveries
...5 percent of births. Of these, up to a quarter of deliveries may result in an injury to the baby's brachial ple...cian." For the study, Gurewitsch performed 30 mock deliveries using a complex birthing device designed by Hopkins faculty, staff and students to simulate shoulder...Is caesarean section linked to postnatal depression?
...th planned vaginal delivery. Among planned vaginal deliveries there was similarly little evidence of a difference between women who had an operative delivery and those who had spontaneous vaginal delivery. There is no reason for women with a history of depression or those at high risk of depression to be manage...Medical technologies may hinder rather than help newborn survival
...e doses of this vaccine. The percentage of induced deliveries increased from 2.5% (147 of 5914) in 1982 to 43% ... in 2004, reaching 82% (374 of 456) of all private deliveries in 2004. The mean birthweight of babies decreased and the proportion of children lighter than 2500g...NYU College of Dentistry study equates poor oral health with preterm birth risk
...k of morbidity, mortality, and disability. Preterm deliveries rose 27 percent between 1982 and 2002, to a total of 480,812, or 12.1 percent of all U.S. births, an increase attributed to such factors as the growing use of fertility drugs, increasing teenage pregnancy and smoking levels, and physicans' improved a...