According to a study published in BMJ (British Medical Journal),giving birth at home or in a midwifery unit may be a safer and more cost effective option for women with low-risk pregnancies who already have children. Researchers from the University of Oxford examined 64,000 births in England between 2008 ...

Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data from the Natality Data File, National Vital Statistics System showing teen childbearing hitting the lowest levels on record. Obviously, the public information campaign to use condoms is working. At the same time, increasing numbers of unmarried couples are having babies, giving ...

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) -- The number of American teens giving birth has dropped to an all-time low, federal health officials reported Tuesday. "There has been a phenomenal drop in the last two years," said report ...

WELLESLEY, Mass.New research reveals the surprising economics behind the high U.S. teen birth rates, and why Texas teens are giving birth at triple the rate of Massachusetts youth: high income inequality and low opportunity cost. For the first time, Wellesley College economist Phillip B. Levine and ...

(Wellesley College) New research reveals the surprising economics behind the high U.S. teen birth rates, and why Texas teens are giving birth at triple the rate of Massachusetts youth: high income inequality and low opportunity cost.

Scientists and doctors in Sheffield are developing two novel devices that they say could lead to the improved prediction of premature births.

Scientists and doctors from the University of Sheffield are developing two novel devices that could lead to the improved prediction of premature births.

In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting -, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that indicate that the risk of obstetric intervention is lower for women who deliver or intend to deliver outside of hospitals, but there are ...

(University of Sheffield) Scientists and doctors from the University of Sheffield are developing two novel devices that could lead to the improved prediction of premature births.Two major trials, together worth nearly a million pounds in funding, are being set up at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS ...

After falling for 14 years, the percentage of home births in the US from 2004 to 2009 rose by 29% to the highest level since data collection on this began in 1989. However, although this looks like a big surge, the overall proportion of American women giving ...

Women have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who gave birth four ...

Bethesda, Md. -- Women have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who ...