NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When babies need help coming into the world, forceps may carry less risk of newborn seizures compared with vacuum deliveries or Cesarean section, a new study suggests. In ...

Forceps and vacuum deliveries are relatively rare, occurring in just 3% of vaginal births. In these “assisted” deliveries, your healthcare practitioner uses either a vacuum device or forceps to help ...

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Eight NHS trusts are now offering a new, less painful device to help women with assisted delivery - the first innovation in childbirth tools in generations ...

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Among patients who undergo forceps-assisted vaginal delivery, obesity does not appear to be associated with increased risk for complications such as injuries to the anal sphincter or the need for ...

A McMaster University-led analysis published in the BMJ on Oct. 19, exposes high rates of injuries with forceps and vacuum delivery in Canada that have been documented for over a decade without ...

Geeta Nayar, who has lived with bowel incontinence since her daughter was born, urges others not to suffer in silence.

A newborn boy died at a hospital in England from a brain hemorrhage during a botched forceps delivery which used an “excessive degree of force,” a coroner ruled. Frederick Joseph Terry, also known as ...