image: Computer scientists from the University of East Anglia are working to create a virtual birthing simulator that will help doctors and midwives prepare for unusual or dangerous births. The new ...

When the Orvis School of Nursing students were no longer allowed in labor and delivery rooms because of safety precautions related to COVID-19, the school had to get creative on how to continue to ...

Childbirth in humans is much more complex and painful than in great apes. It was long believed that this was a result of humans’ larger brains and the narrow dimensions of the mother’s pelvis.

CLOQUET, Minn. -- Virginia is lying on her back in a hospital gown, about to have her second baby. “She’s 39 weeks pregnant,” explains Melissa Seibert, inpatient services director at Cloquet Community ...

HOT SPRINGS -- National Park College nursing students will have a chance to practice their maternal and newborn care skills in a new birthing suite simulator thanks in part to a grant from the ...

3D simulation of the birth canal of chimpanzees with (B) the fetal head in a fully extended position, the typical head alignment in apes, and (C) the fetal head in a fully flexed position, the usual ...