Tag: Caesarean section
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...
Home birth may start babies off with health-promoting microbes
Joan Combellick, Yale University
For all of human history, babies have been born where their mothers lived – whether in a house, hut or cave....
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
