News tagged with hospital births

New study finds home birth safe

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by McMaster University researchers has found low-risk women who have midwives in attendance during birth have positive outcomes regardless of where the delivery takes place.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

UT Southwestern hospital halves its rate of premature births, researchers find

UT Southwestern Medical Center's primary adult teaching hospital has cut its rate of preterm births by more than half in the past 15 years, even as national rates are rising, researchers have found.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Safety not compromised in alternative birthing rooms

Giving birth in an alternative setting within a hospital ? like a bed-free birthing room or one designed to be "homelike"? is just as safe for healthy women as laboring in a traditional hospital bed and women who use these ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0