Making informed decisions about childbirth represents one of the most significant choices expectant parents face. While both vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections safely bring babies into the world ...

Whether you’re instructed to stop using birth control before surgery — and when — depends on many factors. Your choice of contraception, risk of blood clots, and the type of surgery all play a role.

A phase 1 clinical trial published in The Lancet has shown that combining stem cell therapy with standard fetal surgery before birth is a safe and promising approach to treat myelomeningocele, a ...

For the first time, surgery has corrected an abnormal blood vessel in the brain of a fetus. The baby – who has a rare condition called vein of Galen malformation – was born without complications, ...

Going through labour can be nerve-wracking, even if you have given birth before. If you are planning to deliver vaginally after a previous C-section, your anxiety may reach its peak. You may wonder, ...