Obstetrics

Lynne Peeples

New Ways To Protect Unborn Babies From Onslaught Of Toxic Chemicals

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Toxic Chemicals, Pesticides, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Pregnancy, Cancer, Chemicals, Ob/Gyn, Babies, Unborn Babies, Children's Health, Prenatal Care, Green News

Laura Vandenberg worries whenever she hears a pregnant friend talk about painting a nursery. She gets even more concerned when she learns of a childbe...

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Caesarean Vs Natural - An Agonising Choice?

Imogen Clements | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Obstetrics, Natural Birth, Twins, Caesarean, Nice, UK News
Imogen Clements

Nice: Will new guidelines, giving women the choice to have a C-section over natural should they want one, present expectant mothers (particularly of f...

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Baby Boom Has Gone Bust

Tom Silva | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: National Center for Health Statistics, Census Bureau, Gynecology, Great Recession, Pew Research Center, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Obstetrics, Birth Control, Illinois-Department-of-Healthcare-and-Family-Services, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Babies, Birth Rate, Guttmacher Institute, Great Depression, Healthy Living News
Tom Silva

One unexpected side effect of economic hard times is a sharp decline in birth rates. In Illinois, for example, the birth rate has fallen to its lowes...

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Love Your Mother, Save Another

Cristina Page | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Safe Child Birth, Obstetrics, Pregnancy, Fistula, Mother's Day, Infant Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Video, Impact News
Cristina Page

Unlike many of the world's problems, making huge strides in the fight against maternal mortality is actually easy. And relatively inexpensive too. There are things we can all do.

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After St. Joseph's: Are Women Still Safe in Catholic Hospitals?

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Ethics, Women's Rights, Law, Women's Issues, Catholicism, Pregnancy, Arizona, Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Phoenix, Roe v. Wade, Ethics, Health Care, Bioethics, Medicine, Right-Wing Extremism, Abortion, Women, Margaret Mcbride, Roman Catholic Church, Fetus, St. Joseph's Hospital, Obstetrics, Parenting, Thomas J. Olmsted, Barack Obama, Religion, Jacob M. Appel, Women's Health, Sex, Hospitals, Christianity, Doctors, Healthcare, Extremism, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

Thomas J. Olmsted, the Catholic bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, has condemned and excommunicated a highly regarded nun who approved an abortion necessary to save a pregnant woman's life.

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Does Malpractice Alter Obstetric Practice?

D. Brad Wright | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obstetrics, Health Care Reform, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Health Care, Medical Malpractice, Health, Women's Health, Pregnancy, Ob/Gyn, Politics News
D. Brad Wright

The threat of malpractice liability doesn't appear to have any impact on obstetrics, but it may frighten doctors into delivering fewer babies to reduce their cumulative risk of being sued.

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Medical Kidnapping: Rogue Obstetricians vs. Pregnant Women

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Aclu, Medical Ethics, Abortion, Civil Liberties, Women's Rights, Equality, Women, Law, Jana Bures-Forsthoefel, Crime, Reproductive Rights, Civil Rights, Abortion Rights, Tallahassee, Obstetrics, Pregnancy, Feminism, Malpractice, Politics, Human Rights, Apologies, Women's Health, Freedom, Samantha Burton, Florida, Doctors, Ob/Gyn, Bioethics, Healthy Living News
Jacob M. Appel

The treatment of a pregnant Tallahassee mother, Samantha Burton, by her obstetrician may well rank among the most egregious abuses perpetrated against a patient by her caregiver since the triumph of the patients' rights movement.

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Extreme Birth, Indeed

Jennifer Block | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ricki Lake, Birth Center, New York Magazine, Midwives, Natural Childbirth, Cesarean Section, Erykah Badu, Obstetrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Home Birth, New York City, Evidence-Based Medicine, C-Section Rate, Healthy Living News
Jennifer Block

Routine maternity ward monitoring, inducing, and anesthetizing have added up to millions of unnecessary cesarean sections: a hospital childbirth system gone insane.

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