How Business Insider investigated C-sections at over 1,700 American hospitals

Hospitals don't always publicly disclose their C-section rates, so we compiled our own data from over 1,700 hospitals. Here's ...
New York Post

Planned C-sections can increase your child’s risk of these serious conditions

Today, nearly 1 in 3 births in the United States are performed by cesarean section, and a growing number of those are planned rather than done in response to an emergency. Planned C-sections allow ...
Grand Forks Herald

Cesarean sections gain popularity

About one in five births at Altru Health System in Grand Forks are by cesarean section. If that seems high, consider this: At least 32 percent of this country's babies are born by C-section, up by 53 ...
Becker's Hospital Review

A comparative sNPWT study of 10,000+ C-sections shows PICO sNPWT reduces complications and cuts healthcare costs by $728,000 per 1,000 patients

Smith+Nephew (LSE:SN, NYSE:SNN), the global medical technology company, today announces findings from a newly published comparative study of single-use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (sNPWT) devices ...
The New York Times

Doctors Give Black Women Unneeded C-Sections to Fill Operating Rooms, Study Suggests

Healthy Black women with low risk factors were far more likely to get C-sections than white women with similar medical histories, a large new study found. By Sarah Kliff Obstetricians are more likely ...