Currently, around 30 per cent of pregnant women in China receive anaesthesia for pain relief during childbirth. This is in ...

Karnataka recorded 8,57,124 deliveries in 2024-25, with 46.9% via C-sections, exceeding global standards, as per health department data.

Aster Ramesh Hospitals in Vijayawada successfully performs awake bypass surgery on a 76-year-old patient with critical health conditions.

Thousands of Dutch women per year experience pain during C-section deliveriesEarlier this year, a large-scale international study showed that approximately 10 to 15 percent of women experience pain ...

Labour contractions are your body’s way of guiding your baby into the world. But when they become too intense, too frequent, ...

Even a well-planned birth can take a sudden turn. Sometimes, a C-section scheduled calmly in advance must be converted into ...

A federal cap on borrowing for graduate nursing students and others isn’t just making nurses angry, but it could harm the health-care system.

Early in pregnancy, Molly Ercole already had an idea of what she wanted for her childbirth. "I didn't want to see a different doctor at every appointment," says Ercole, a non-profit ...

Local anesthesia numbs a small area of the body but lets you stay awake during a procedure. Local anesthesia is safer than general anesthesia and has a lower risk of side effects. Local anesthesia ...

Objective To determine the impact of perioperative thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA) on acute and late outcomes following transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TA-TAVI). Patients and ...

Eating or drinking before surgery can cause serious complications like vomiting and aspiration, which is when you inhale food or drink into your lungs. Your healthcare provider will give you specific ...