While fertility treatments have helped many people become parents, they commonly result in multiple births, increasing the risk of prematurity, and leading to lifelong complications. But this doesn't ...

Although septuplets are still rare, the increased use of in vitro fertilization and fertility drugs has vastly increased the number of multiple births. But these apparent successes are actually the ...

A recent study led by Ph.D. in Epidemiology candidate Marion Granger Howard and published in JAMA Pediatrics compared the health outcomes of planned hospital births vs. planned community births (i.e., ...

For births at 22 weeks 0 days to 25 weeks 6 days of gestation, cesarean delivery was associated with higher risks for multiple serious maternal complications than vaginal delivery. Researchers ...