What results is a patchwork of disclosures that can hide significant C-section rate swings across nearby hospitals. Business Insider requested C-section data from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. An ...
At Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas, doctors performed C-sections on half of all women with low-risk pregnancies — first-time mothers at full term, carrying a single baby positioned ...
A new study reports a significant decline in the rate of cesarean section (C-section) births in Portugal. Findings published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, a journal of the Nordic ...
In 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services released "Healthy People 2030," a set of objectives designed to improve the nation's health outcomes. This year, at the halfway point, Business ...
Black mothers have the highest cesarean rate of any major racial group in the United States. Recent CDC data put it at roughly 35% to 36% of births, compared with about 31% for white mothers, in a ...
Roughly one in 10 pregnant women in the US undergoes a cesarean section that experts say could have been avoided. One of the strongest predictors of her risk of a medically unnecessary C-section isn't ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI At Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas, doctors performed C-sections on half of all ...
At Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas, doctors performed C-sections on half of all women with low-risk pregnancies — first-time mothers at full term, carrying a single baby positioned ...