Caesarean sections, while life-saving, are major surgeries, not minor ones, and recovery is faster than often believed.

Local dailies highlight Raphael Tuju’s health issues in police custody amid a property dispute and the disturbing exhumation ...

Stem-cell–enhanced in‑utero surgery for spina bifida safely protects the fetal spinal cord and has so far prevented shunt ...

While mannequins are used to model clothing, these manikins are models of the human body used to train medical professionals.

Just over a year ago, a healthy 18-year-old Colorado girl died due to complications from an elective induced abortion at ...

In regenerative medicine for autism, outcomes are shaped not only by the biological material used but also by the clinical ...

A doula who attended the freebirth that ended in a Melbourne mum’s tragic death has been summoned to the Coroner’s Court ...

A group of House Republicans aims to use environmental restrictions to curb the use of the abortion pill mifepristone, which ...

Several bills over the years have been pared back to studies and advocates are impatient. But the state says it must get it ...

A growing number of American parents are refusing standard newborn medical interventions that go well beyond childhood vaccines, including vitamin K injections and antibiotic eye ointment. A ...

Hannah Fitzpatrick felt the "pop" before she felt her waters run down her leg. As a midwife, Hannah knew what it meant. She was 22 weeks and three days into her pregnancy and had just had a procedure ...

From first contractions to delivery, mothers describe their experiences in maternity wards and the care they receive.