The World Health Organisation emphasises that caesarean section should be performed only when medically necessary, such as in ...

Days after a 14-day-old child's parents alleged that he was deliberately dropped on the floor by staff at district women's ...

According to the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, cesarean sections have become a more common way of giving ...

Hospitals don't always publicly disclose their C-section rates, so we compiled our own data from over 1,700 hospitals. Here's ...

Medical malpractice: Suit alleges that negligent performance of a C-section procedure resulted in left ureter injury, causing severe complications including hydronephrosis, requiring additional ...

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 ...

The rapid rise in cesarean section procedures is reshaping global maternal and child health in ways policymakers have failed to address, says a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery the ...

Re “Doctors Stick With Unreliable Medical Tool to Justify C-Sections” (front page, Nov. 7): As the president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, I found that this article, ...

Medical malpractice: Suit alleges that a physician's negligent C-section procedure, including an inappropriate incision, necessitated an emergency hysterectomy and removal of fallopian tubes, ...