The overall maternal death rate in the US is not as low as it could be, according to a review of pregnancy-related deaths in North Carolina, which suggests that about four…

Compared with their sisters who have not given birth, women who have given birth vaginally do not appear to have an increased risk of urinary incontinence, according to a report…

The findings suggest that “the message regarding physical activity during pregnancy is not being heard or is not being perceived as important by most pregnant women, although research…

Women who drink eight or more cups of coffee daily while pregnant are at risk for spontaneous abortion and stillbirth, Danish researchers report. In their study, they found…

Though women who’ve had a Cesarean section can often deliver vaginally with their next pregnancy, the odds of success may be lower for overweight and obese women, according to researchers.

In theory, whether a child is born by Cesarean section or in the normal way via the birth canal could affect his or her chances of developing asthma later in life…

The time needed to achieve pregnancy appears to affect the outcome of that pregnancy, Swedish researchers report. In particular, time to pregnancy seems to affect the risks of Miscarriage, pregnancies in…

In both the United States and Europe, the classification of pregnancy-related mortality using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) cause-of-death codes leads to a significant underreporting, researchers report in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The proportion of family medicine residency graduates who include obstetric care in their practices has declined substantially, according to a survey of FPs who completed residencies after 1996.

Researchers at the…

For women fighting opiate addiction, methadone maintenance during pregnancy helps them stay off drugs - but it may have adverse effects on the unborn baby, investigators report.

“Methadone maintenance offers clear…

Women who put off getting pregnant till past their mid-thirties are defying nature and risk the heartbreak of infertility, Miscarriage or other complications, doctors warned on Friday.

“Women want to ‘have…

Many women worldwide continue to undergo a painful procedure during childbirth that experts say should be used only in limited circumstances, according to a new report.

The procedure, called