A third of babies born in the U.S. are delivered by cesarean section, and researchers estimate that about half of those surgeries are medically unnecessary. A number of hospitals have taken steps to ...

The Cesarean section, or commonly known as a C-section, is a surgical method of retrieving a baby during delivery. Today, C-sections are recommended based on the health of the mother or baby during ...

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Five cheetah cubs are receiving critical care after veterinarians decided to perform a rare C-section birth on their five-year-old mother last week. The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden welcomed the ...

CINCINNATI (AP) – Cincinnati Zoo officials say five cheetah cubs born after a rare C-section procedure are getting around-the-clock critical care in the zoo’s nursery. The zoo’s director of animal ...

In monthly meetings, Ms. Culver made doctors aware of their C-section rates compared with their peers’. She also hung “first ...

Is your baby in an awkward position? Is your labor not progressing? Do you have other health concerns? In any of these situations, you might need a cesarean delivery — commonly known as a cesarean ...

No matter where a family lives, welcoming a baby into the world can be a joyous occasion – yet how a woman experiences birth varies drastically from country to country. The number of births by ...