The OB ED provides around-the-clock care for expectant mothers who need immediate evaluation, helping improve safety, coordination and timely access to obstetrical expertise, AdventHealth said in a ...

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 ...

Materna Medical's Ellora Obstetrical System is designed to address a critical unmet need in labor and delivery--reducing pelvic floor injuries during vaginal birth. These injuries, often involving ...

Harvey Karp, the best-selling author of The Happiest Baby on the Block, has some advice on his website for frazzled new parents: “Remember—your baby’s brain was so big that you had to ‘evict’ her ...

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 ...

In their last Medical Malpractice column, Thomas Moore and Matthew Gaier reviewed several decisions relating to implied physician-patient relationships. In this column, they continue with that theme, ...

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 ...