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If you or your spouse is pregnant, you have to be extremely grateful that there has never been a better time to have a child. Regarding safety, you have very good chances of having an uneventful (relatively speaking) birthing process that results in a perfectly healthy child. That being said, you probably already know that

Women have been giving birth to children for quite literally millions of years. Over that course of time, medical science has advanced to the point where labor is as safe as it possibly can be compared to the deliveries our ancestors had to endure, but even in modern hospitals, the possibility of birth injury –

Birth has never been an easy process, but medical procedures have come so far, you’d think we had it down to, well, science by now. While it’s safer than ever, the scary truth is that things can still go wrong, and the child and mother can end up injured. All kinds of complications can arise,

Whether it’s our eyes or our smiles, our faces command the most attention when making first impressions. They’re not just where we speak from, but also how we emote and add emphasis in verbal and non-verbal ways. For these reasons and much more, our faces are incredibly important to not just how we function, but

Every parent wants the best for their children. This starts from day one. When parents get asked if they’d rather have a boy or girl, most say, “I just want a healthy baby.” Sadly, this isn’t always what parents get. Many babies are injured during birth or shortly thereafter. One example of this that’s worth

When it comes to medical conditions that newborns can develop during their birth, one of the more rare birth injuries is infant cephalohematoma. Only occurring in around 1 percent to 2 percent of all births, infant cephalohematoma usually doesn’t happen unless medical personnel uses birth-assisting tools such as forceps to aid in delivery. While it’s

Klumpke’s palsy (or Klumpke’s paralysis) is a condition that affects an individual’s hand mobility and hand and arm strength. This condition may be the result of trauma or accident in which a person’s arm or shoulder are stretched by an extreme pulling action, which can damage certain cervical and thoracic nerve pathways. Physicians who use

Anyone suffering pain or discomfort in their bladder should go to the doctor right away. Although unlikely, it could be bladder cancer, a malady that is all too easy to misdiagnose. What Is Bladder Cancer? Bladder cancer is a form of the disease that develops within the body’s epithelial cells. These make up the lining

Abnormal cell growth causes brain tumors to develop. Many tumors start in the brain, but not always. It is possible for the tumor to start in another part of the body and spread to the brain. Either way, the tumor can be benign or malignant, both of which occur with their sets of symptoms and