FORT COLLINS, Colo., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Infants born to women who've survived a hurricane face significant fetal distress risks and can experience long-term healthcare problems, a U.S. study says.

May 4, 2009 — The infants most affected by general anesthesia for cesarean delivery are those who are already compromised in utero, according to the results of a study reported in the April 29 Online ...

A simple, inexpensive test administered early in labor appears able to predict which women are most likely to have trouble delivering a healthy baby. Developed at the University of Southern California ...

During labor and delivery, infants preferentially secrete a different stress hormone than their mothers do, according to a new clinical study. During labor and delivery, infants preferentially secrete ...

Midpelvic operative vaginal delivery is associated with significantly higher risk for severe birth trauma and obstetric trauma compared with cesarean delivery, a new study shows. Rates of severe ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with infants born before the COVID-19 pandemic, those born during the pandemic had decreased fetal ...

The companies plan to co-develop solutions that support the integration of Raydiant Oximetry’s fetal pulse oximetry technology into GE HealthCare’s fetal monitoring and digital perinatal surveillance ...

> Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT isn't associated with long-term distress among patients, according to an article in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology. The authors, in looking at studies ...

Fetuses with complete heart block have an increased mortality with most deaths occurring in utero or during infancy. The cardiac evaluation of these fetuses is difficult since the ventricular rate is ...

A Harford County jury awarded more than $13 million to a mother and her son, a now-18-year-old who suffered brain injuries during his birth at the Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in 2004. The lawsuit ...