MICAH RICHARDS has revealed he has quit drinking in an effort to lose weight following a back injury. The former Manchester ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes paralysis in roughly one million people worldwide, with incident cases rising yearly. Beyond motor and sensory ...

DODOMA: BENJAMIN Mkapa Hospital (BMH) is set to launch a new service that offers safe pain relief for expectant mothers ...

Her previous labours had been quick. History had taught her that once contractions began, the delivery race was swift and ...

A woman in a difficult labour had no pain relief, likely for hours, because her epidural line had come out and no one noticed ...

Researchers have established that epidural analgesia, at the expense of augmenting small perineal tears marginally, ...

The Japanese capital is rolling out subsidies for epidurals in a country where cost is a barrier and women are often ...

Anesthesia works by using medications (anesthetics) to temporarily block pain signals from traveling along your nerves to your brain, or by numbing the brain itself to cause unconsciousness. The ...

Source: RDNE Stock Project/Pexels You have likely heard of claustrophobia and maybe even arachnophobia (fear of spiders), but what is tokophobia? Tokophobia is an intense fear of pregnancy and ...

Episiotomies used to be commonplace, but now they're only used if something goes wrong during the birthing process.

This Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, take time to consider how to help loved ones cope with losing an unborn child ...

Ravi, a software engineer in the UK, experienced escalating back pain that led to paralysis due to a delayed diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis. Critical CT scans were postponed, allowing the infection ...