Medical students who practiced on a patient simulator before assisting in real-life vaginal deliveries scored significantly higher on their final examinations than did students receiving a lecture ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The laboring woman groaned in pain: "Ow, ow. Make the baby come out." The baby’s head was already seeing daylight. But its shoulder was stuck. Delivering this infant safely would ...

Noelle, a 27-year-old pregnant woman, arrived at Advocate BroMenn Medical Center five weeks before her due date. She and her baby were losing blood. Nurses concluded she had placental abruption, ...

CLOQUET, Minn. -- Virginia is lying on her back in a hospital gown, about to have her second baby. “She’s 39 weeks pregnant,” explains Melissa Seibert, inpatient services director at Cloquet Community ...

New York City Health and Hospitals is expanding its obstetrics simulation labs throughout the system to help reduce maternal deaths and life-threatening complications during childbirth, the health ...