A new mom was baffled when she received her hospital bill two weeks after she gave birth to her daughter. Despite having a C-section, she discovered that she was also charged for a vaginal delivery.

C-sections can be lifesaving, but sometimes the procedure can be overused. Data helped show how a hospital decreased its ...

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and ...

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

After Rachel Somerstein was rushed into an operating room for an unplanned caesarean section, her doctor made the first cut. “I felt that,” she told him. “You’ll feel pressure,” the doctor responded.

On December 26, 2020, Taylor Kern, who was nearly nine months pregnant, went to the hospital because she couldn’t breathe.

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 ...

How long you stay in the hospital after birth depends on a lot of things – including hospital rules, insurance, and your own birth experience – but the average hospital stay is usually between 24 ...

If you're considering getting pregnant or in the early stages of pregnancy, chances are you're already researching hospitals for where you want to deliver your baby and what to expect at the hospital.

LOS ANGELES -- A local man is suing Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after his wife died during what was supposed to be a routine C-section birth. Charles Johnson lost his wife three years ago, but he is ...