Prof Fergal Malone says it’s important for doctors to challenge conventional wisdom to ensure that contemporary medical practices are ‘safe, effective and appropriate’. A recent study from RCSI ...

Labor is a physiological process. The more crucial part of labour is the SSL. In ancient times, upright positions was adopted ...

- An echocardiography of the baby's little heart soon after the onset of labour can predict the outcome of the birth and in particular whether the baby will adequately tolerate the contractions or ...

Expectant parents wait 40 weeks for the arrival of their new baby, but what if labor was induced one week earlier? Conventional wisdom holds that inducing labor at 39 weeks would be cost-prohibitive ...

Alicia Dennis receives funding from NHMRC ECF Health Practitioner Fellowship, is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, is Chair of the Public Practice Advisory Committee ...

Women with preeclampsia with severe features benefit from treatment with oral nifedipine during labor and delivery, results of a randomized controlled trial suggest. The study showed that intrapartum ...

A new report from the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform reveals a startling reality for families in rural America: more than half of rural hospitals in this country (55%) do not offer ...

Glass-walled nurseries brimming with newborns and beds filled with exhausted mothers were once standard parts of any community hospital. But that may be changing as community hospitals grapple with a ...

Less than a month after Kapuskasing's Sensenbrenner Hospital announced that its obstetrics program is at immediate risk of closing, a new report from the Northern Policy Institute is calling for ...