NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Attempting to aid a difficult childbirth with forceps instead of immediately performing a C-section may not raise the risks to the baby in most cases, a new study suggests.

Have you ever wondered what happens when labour doesn't progress as expected? Or how do doctors manage situations where delivery needs a little extra help? In those moments, forceps delivery can be a ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Vijayawada, Aug 16 (IANS) In a shocking incident of medical negligence, doctors allegedly left forceps in a woman's stomach after her cesarean delivery at a government-hospital at Eluru ...

Vijayawada: An artery forceps measuring two to three inches length was removed from the abdomen of a woman when it was forgotten by a team of doctors while performing delivery through C-section four ...

A new data analysis has found Canada has the highest rates of injuries from forceps and vacuum delivery among high-income countries. These injuries have been "documented for over a decade without ...

A consultant gynaecologist has been suspended after she was accused of bullying a terrified mother-to-be into agreeing to the use of forceps as she was giving birth to her first child at a NHS ...

Laura Ralph was terrified for her baby when she gave consent to the use of forceps during her delivery. “It was extremely traumatic,” said Ralph. “They’re running me down the hall. I’m like, ‘Is my ...

With only three weeks before my due date, I was on the phone calling hospitals across the country to find one I could transfer my prenatal care to, sometimes crying so hard I was barely coherent. I ...

Until the final minutes of his mother’s pregnancy, until those awful moments when everything suddenly shifted from good to complicated to terribly bad, Matthew was expected to be a big, healthy baby.

Leung and colleagues raise 3 issues: 1) that my conclusions concerning the protective effect of cesarean section for anal incontinence were based upon the article by Eason and colleagues,1 2) that ...