C-Section

Emily Kaplan is co-founder and CEO of the Broken Science Initiative, an alternative approach to health and science.

Cesarean sections, or C-sections, one of modern medicine's most remarkable accomplishments, are increasingly being scrutinized. With over 30 ...

Health Viewpoints Cesarean section (C-section) deliveries in the United States made up more than 30 percent of all births ...

Aimee Wright and her husband Scott, who live in Lake Mary, Florida, planned to have a home birth ...

A new mom has shared a powerful post explaining how she was shamed and told she was not ...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C.—A mother who had an emergency C-section in British Columbia while in a coma due to complications ...

Low-risk pregnant women who deliver in a hospital and receive care from midwives have fewer interventions and fewer ...

LONDON—A huge study of babies’ stool samples has found key differences between infants born vaginally and those born ...

A farmer in the United Kingdom saved four adorable cubs in the middle of the night when he ...

Pregnant women may be less likely to have cesarean deliveries when they labor at a hospital with more ...

Births by cesarean section are rising worldwide. The latest figures (2016) show that 25 percent of births in ...

In China, an increasingly high number of Cesarean births (C-sections) are being practiced in the country. The situation ...

China has one of the highest rates of C-sections in the world, estimated at 46 percent in 2007.

Some netizens allege that doctors opt for cesarean deliveries because they make more money.