by Debby | Aug 12, 2009 | Research Updates
Results from observational studies looking at the relationship between breastfeeding and the development of premenopausal breast cancer have been inconsistent, so the results from a large prospective cohort study published recently in the Archives of Internal Medicine... by Debby | Jul 8, 2009 | Research Updates
A small Swedish study published in the July edition of Acta Paediatricia sheds light on the possible mechanism for the increased risks for disorders such as asthma, type 1 diabetes, childhood leukemia, and testicular cancer found in babies born by cesarean surgery.... by Debby | Jul 1, 2009 | Research Updates
According to the abstract and news reports, researchers in Iran have found that planned cesarean sections are associated with the lowest rate of long-term maternal and paternal sexual dysfunction in the year following childbirth. Normally, I do not blog about new... by Debby | Jun 25, 2009 | Research Updates
Boy, did this headline catch my attention! In recent years there have been several important studies published that document the increased risks to late pre-term babies. At a news conference in California this week, Dr. Michael Kramer of the Canadian Institutes of... by Debby | Jun 22, 2009 | Research Updates
I had heard about this study and was excited to finally see it published. Noted researcher Ellen Hodnett and colleagues did a pilot study looking at the effects of the labor room environment on the amount of time women spend laboring outside a bed and on women’s... by Debby | Jun 3, 2009 | Research Updates
It’s still hard for me to believe that in 2006 the National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference on Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request concluded that we need “more research” in order to compare the outcomes from vaginal birth to the outcomes...