Scientists are revisiting an influential theory that the evolution of big brains made human childbirth risky. By Carl Zimmer It’s a question on every new parent’s exhausted mind: Why are babies born ...

A team of integrative biologists at the University of Texas, Western Washington University and Columbia University Irving Medical Center has found that both wide and narrow hips provide women with ...

For women undergoing in vitro fertilization, single-embryo transfers are more likely than multiple-embryo transfers to end in a healthy birth, irrespective of whether fresh or frozen oocytes are used, ...

Obstetrical complications differ fivefold among U.S. hospitals Clinicians and policy makers should develop quality metrics to improve obstetrical outcomes. The rates of major obstetrical complications ...

Dr. Lynda Gilliam, right, medical director of Huntsville Hospital's new obstetrical emergency department, talks in the doorway to the OB ER with Jade LaCroix, center, nursing unit director for the OB ...

William J. Ott. New York: Wiley-Liss, Inc., 1999. 394 pages in one hardback volume, illustrated, US$159.95 Perhaps one of the greatest influences on the course of modern obstetrics in the latter half ...

UChicago Medicine has named Sarosh Rana, MD, to serve as its first chief obstetrical transformation officer. Dr. Rana, an expert in managing hypertensive disorders among pregnant patients, stepped ...

New data shows more people are filing complaints about obstetrical and gynecological care in Ontario, with insensitivity, poor communication and lack of trauma awareness among the most common ...