Experts provide tips on how to protect yourself during labor and delivery, including asking questions and seeking a second ...

What Do Labor and Delivery Nurses Do? Labor and delivery nurses have a wide range of responsibilities. They typically care for multiple pregnant, laboring, or postpartum patients at one time. Labor ...

Only 41% of rural hospitals in the U.S. deliver babies, according to a report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and ...

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery ...

More rural hospitals have closed or are planning to close their labor and delivery units in 2025 than in 2024, bringing the ...

Caitlin DePasquale of Norwalk watches as midwife Lindsay Lachant measures her abdomen during Depasquale’s appointment at the Connecticut Childbirth & Women’s Center in Danbury. Credit: Melanie Stengel ...

Let’s face it: reading medical studies from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is about as thrilling as watching paint dry. So, when The New York Times dropped its bombshell summary that ...

Read full article: Maternal deaths are 3 times higher in Black women, doctors say There are very few symptoms of high blood pressure, which is why it’s referred to as the “silent killer,” but there ...

GALLUP, N.M. – Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital announced it is temporarily closing its Labor and Delivery Unit on Wednesday, Aug. 3. RMCH said the unit will take its last patients on July 31, so ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE/Gray News) - A labor and delivery nurse was fired from the hospital where he worked after he was accused of fracturing the skull of his adopted child. Dustin Clark, 30, was arrested ...