Camilla Luddington’s Grey’s Anatomy pregnant character, Jo, survived an emergency C-section — and the premature birth of her twin babies — but she’s not out of the woods just yet. During the Thursday, ...

As we mark Cesarean Section Day, we celebrate the women whose birth stories unfolded inside an operating room—stories marked by courage. A C-section may be a medical procedure, but for countless moms, ...

The discovery of caesarean deliveries, or C-sections, was a major medical breakthrough that helped prevent countless maternal and fetal deaths. However, global health standards recommend that the ...

Financial and social incentives can nudge doctors away from the operating room. By Sarah Kliff and Bianca Pallaro Sarah Kliff reported from Rochester, N.Y. Bianca Pallaro analyzed historical C-section ...

One in three babies are delivered by cesarean section in the U.S., the most common major surgery in this country. A new investigation by The New York Times finds that a widely-used fetal monitoring ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — It all comes down to this. One week left in the Section III football season. Class AA, A, B, C, D and 8-man will all crown championships inside the ...

Nearly every woman who gives birth in an American hospital is strapped with a belt of sensors to track the baby’s heartbeat. If the pattern is deemed abnormal — too slow, for example — doctors often ...

Women who undergo C-sections are more likely to experience debilitating pain and sleep disorders in the months after giving birth. Researchers found both qualitative and large-scale data supporting ...

CROWLEY, La. (KLFY) — A Crowley mother is speaking out after discovering a radiopaque lap sponge marker was left inside her body following an emergency C-section in June. A radiopaque lap sponge ...

Although cesarean section rates have been roughly stagnant for years statewide and nationwide, some Long Island hospitals have made dramatic progress in reducing the percentage of low-risk pregnancies ...

A baby girl delivered via C-section after a seven-month pregnant woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike was rushed to a Gaza hospital in critical condition but succumbed to her injured hours later.

Emily had a bad feeling about her Caesarian section before it started. The epidural had numbed her legs, but she could sense the catheter in her bladder, which seemed wrong to her as a labor and ...