A doctor’s competency has been brought into question as a mother and father allege that the doctor’s negligence led to the ...

Author and doula Carson Meyer shares her take on childbirth in an exclusive essay for PEOPLE. All pregnancy and birthing ...

Alycia Gibbons is expected to be induced Tuesday, and will soon begin treatment for cancer. She and her husband, John say ...

"The fact that you’re in the situation, you don’t know that it’s not normal, you don’t know that you can talk to people, and ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64(11):1148-1152. Health care organizations around the nation have been working to reduce the use of meperidine as a first-line agent for pain management. Despite the ...

Labor contractions can feel like discomfort or a dull ache in the lower back, a tightening sensation across the abdomen, and pelvic pressure. Not everyone experiences contractions in the same way.

Bar Harbour, Maine-based Mount Desert Island Hospital will close its labor and delivery unit July 1 due to a “dramatic ...

Despite low birth rates at the hospital in recent months, MDIH nurses say the decision will rip critical healthcare from ...

The hospital announced March 27 that it will close its Labor and Delivery Unit effective July 1, citing a dramatic decline in ...

After a decline in births, officials at Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor announced today that they will close the labor and delivery unit this summer.

Measure would require CT deny permission to any hospital seeking to shutter labor and delivery if there isn’t an alternative ...

Another Maine hospital is closing its labor and delivery unit and services. MDI Hospital announced Thursday it will close its ...