Financial and social incentives can nudge doctors away from the operating room. By Sarah Kliff and Bianca Pallaro Sarah Kliff reported from Rochester, N.Y. Bianca Pallaro analyzed historical C-section ...

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In 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services released "Healthy People 2030," a set of objectives designed to improve the nation's health outcomes. This year, at the halfway point, Business ...

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Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found. Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to ...

Experts say hundreds of thousands of women each year undergo surgery they don't need — and the system rewards it Kelsey Birch remembers the crushing pressure, the sharp jerks, and the feeling of hands ...

In recent years, a significant shift in cesarean section procedures has transformed the experience for mothers, moving it from a purely medical intervention to a more intimate, personal moment. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cherise Doyley was in labor in 2024 when the hospital sought an emergency hearing to force her to have a C-section. Doyley, who ...

In the spring of 2016, obstetrician Dr. Jesanna Cooper's practice hired a nurse-midwife to deliver babies at Princeton Baptist Medical Center, a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. The nurse-midwife was ...

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