I spent my 20s and 30s scheduling yearly checkups with an ob-gyn, finding a new one each time I moved. We always did the standard: talked about birth control options while I grimaced through a pelvic ...

CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs will end its labor and delivery services Aug. 31, citing staffing issues.

The very first thing many babies encounter when they're born is their mother's poop. If they're born vaginally, head down, with the face against their mother's rectum, the pressure can expel fecal ...

OGDENSBURG — North Star Health Alliance will be submitting plans to the state Department of Health (DOH) to end birthing and labor services at the Claxton-Hepburn Medical Campus, according to an ...

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Of the approximately four million women who give birth each year in the United States, nearly 13 percent experience one or more major complications. But the extent to which the rates of major ...

I spent my 20s and 30s scheduling yearly checkups with an ob-gyn, finding a new one each time I moved. We always did the standard: talked about birth control options while I grimaced through a pelvic ...