Rural obstetric units have been closing at an alarming rate across the country. Some hospitals model how to overcome ...

If you are pregnant and have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), you may feel concerned about labour and delivery. PCOS can affect birth because of hormones and overall health, but your experience is ...

Since the 1970s, electronic fetal monitoring has been the go-to technology in perinatal obstetrics for the detection of fetal distress during labor. Although the technology has changed slightly in the ...

The only hospital in a Northern Idaho town of 9,000 people, Bonner General Health, announced last week that it was closing its labor and delivery clinic. The hospital — situated in Sandpoint, a remote ...

BACKGROUND: In recent decades, many smaller hospitals in British Columbia, Canada, have stopped providing planned obstetric services. We examined the effect of these service closures on the labour and ...

A pregnant resident of Lincoln County, with the backing of a grassroots organizing group, filed a lawsuit against MaineHealth ...