Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Episiotomy rates dropped over a six-year period, possibly because two organizations recommended against their ...

Between 2006 and 2012 in the U.S., there was a decline in rates of episiotomy, a surgical procedure for widening the outlet of the birth canal to make it easier for the mother to give birth, according ...

Professor Michael Beckmann and his colleagues have reported in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews that massage technique to the lower genital tract reduces the surgical procedure such as ...

An episiotomy is a surgical incision that can be done to widen your vaginal opening during childbirth. During this procedure, your doctor makes a small, straight (midline) or angled (mediolateral) ...

LOS ANGELES, May 7 – While episiotomy rates have continued to decrease over the past 19 years, the procedure is still overused, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of ...

Having an episiotomy, a surgical cut to the vagina during childbirth, doubles the risk of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) in women with moderate or severe anemia, according to new research published in ...

Mothers who have an episiotomy during their first delivery are more likely to require the procedure in subsequent deliveries, according to researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and ...

WASHINGTON -- One of the most common surgical procedures performed in the United States -- an incision many pregnant women receive to make childbirth less damaging -- has no benefits and actually ...

Episiotomy, a once-routine surgical incision made in a woman's vaginal opening during childbirth to speed the baby's passage, has been officially discouraged for at least a decade by the leading ...

Between 2006 and 2012 in the U.S., there was a decline in rates of episiotomy, a surgical procedure for widening the outlet of the birth canal to make it easier for the mother to give birth, according ...