cesarean section

A new Florida law makes the Sunshine State the first in the nation to let cesarean sections be performed in "advanced birth centers." Some health experts are leery even though many hospitals have closed maternity wards.

Despite years of efforts to reduce the use of C-sections in delivering babies, rates remain high, especially in the South. Black women, particularly, are more likely to give birth by C-section.

Update: The Florida Board of Medicine on Friday recommended that Dr. Simion Tsinker be suspended. More here.The most controversial issue in childbirth –…

A Florida mother is home and tending to her new infant less than a month after surviving without a pulse for 45 minutes following complications from a…