When journalist and professor Rachel Somerstein had an emergency C-section with her first child, the anesthesia didn't work. She says she could literally feel the operation as it was happening. Later, ...

Antibiotic prophylaxis regimens are becoming less effective at preventing surgical site infections following colorectal surgery, researchers at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy and ...

When Rachel Somerstein was pregnant with her first child, delivering via cesarean section wasn’t in her plans. That changed the day she gave birth when after hours of labor, her daughter’s heartbeat ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The efficacy of prophylactic antibiotics in preventing surgical site infections following colorectal surgery has ...

A cesarean delivery, commonly known as a C-section, is a surgical procedure used to deliver a baby from the abdomen of a pregnant woman. This is an alternative to the more common vaginal delivery.

After more than a decade as an OB-GYN, Darine El-Chaâr still finds late-stage emergency C-sections to be hard. Labor can drag on for days without a baby being born, at which point the situation grows ...