Childbirth `changing in Canada,&#39; study finds
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Medical intervention is becoming more common for women giving birth, a federal report released yesterday shows. Almost half of Canadian women have epidurals for pain relief during vaginal delivery.
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A recent study by researchers from the Bristol University was published in the journal Thorax. The report is likely to cause an alarm among pregnant women and mothers of newly born.
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OTTAWA -- Canada&#39;s nursing workforce will be hit by a tidal wave of retirements in coming years, a new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information indicates.
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Women pregnant with twins, triplets or  quadruplets are at greater risk of serious health complications  than are women carrying just one fetus, according to a Canadian  study published on Wednesday.
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A study suggests hundreds of unnecessary and risky operations to prevent stroke are being done each year across Canada. A neurologist and dean of medicine at the University of Alberta, is the lead author of the study.
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Children whose mothers are stressed are at higher risk for asthma, Canadian researchers said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - New research provides more evidence that childbearing factors, especially those related to a first pregnancy, influence a woman&#39;s risk of breast cancer.
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OTTAWA -- Canada&#39;s heading into a critical nursing shortage as most of them are over 50 and preparing to retire, a new report shows.
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NEW YORK  - In the US, many mothers who  have "no indicated risk" for a difficult vaginal birth are  having caesarean deliveries -- and the rate is rising year by  year -- according to a report in the British Medical Journal.
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WASHINGTON Nov 23, 2004 - More than a quarter of the babies born in the United States last year were delivered by Caesarean section, a record high for the surgical method that is a controversial subject among both obstetricians and mothers.
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LONDON -- More US women are choosing to have their babies by Caesarean section even when it&#39;s not medically necessary. Medical experts say that&#39;s partly because it&#39;s more convenient and gives mothers control over the birth schedule.
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A child born of a teenage father is more likely to have problems at birth ranging from pre-term delivery and low birth weight, according to a Canadian study published Thursday.
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Women who go onto their hands and knees while in labor may be able to reduce the pain of childbirth, researchers say.
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The Caesarean delivery rate for U.S. women hit a record high in 2005, spiking by nearly 50 percent in a decade, while teen births fell to a new low and births by unmarried mothers rose, according to government data released on Tuesday.
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Babies born by elective Caesarean section are more likely to develop breathing problems, a study suggests.
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LONDON, Oct 22 (IPS) - The Women Deliver conference held in London last  week has reminded a lot of people in the world of healthcare how  much more they need to deliver to make pregnancy and childbirth  safer for women.
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Mumbai, December 20: By listening intently to movements and heartbeats, American researchers have found that the foetuses of mothers who are stressed or depressed, respond differently from those of emotionally healthy women.