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Ignore the fluorescent lights, the watchful eyes of six medical students gazing at your lower body, obscured behind a sheet. Ignore the vice grip you have on your partner’s hand as they naively coach ...

Many pregnant women are able to deliver their babies in the hospital normally and without medical assistance. This is called spontaneous vaginal childbirth. However, there are some situations in which ...

Obstetric forceps look like ninja weapons. They come as a pair: 16 inches of solid steel for each hand with curved "blades" that taper into a set of molded grips. Designed for emergencies that require ...

Obstetric forceps were invented in the 1600s, but weren’t widely used during childbirth until the early 1700s. That’s because their inventors, a family of male midwives, kept them a secret for profit.

Diagnosing a narrowed bile duct is one of the most consequential puzzles in digestive medicine. Roughly seventy percent of biliary strictures turn out to be malignant, yet the early symptoms are so ...

In 1990, over five percent of all births in the United States were delivered by forceps. By 2023, the percentage of births delivered by forceps decreased to 0.4 percent. The percentage of births ...

Obstetric forceps look like ninja weapons. They come as a pair: 16 inches of solid steel for each hand with curved “blades” that taper into a set of molded grips. Designed for emergencies that require ...