Tag: Obstetrics
More than 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable in the...
Rachel Diamond, Adler University
Preventable failures in U.S. maternal health care result in far too many pregnancy-related deaths. Each...
I’m an OB/GYN who attended thousands of deliveries before wondering why...
Neel Shah, Harvard Medical School
A few years ago I visited Dar a Luz, the only free-standing birth center in New Mexico. It looks...
How forceps permanently changed the way humans are born
Neel Shah, Harvard Medical School
Obstetric forceps look like ninja weapons. They come as a pair: 16 inches of solid steel for each hand...
I’m an OB-GYN Treating Women with Zika: This is What it’s...
Christine Curry, University of Miami
As a medical student, I remember reading books about the early days of the HIV epidemic and wondering what it...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
