More than 14 percent of pregnant women were prescribed opioids for pain at some time during their pregnancy, according to a study in Anesthesiology. Researchers defined a cohort of 534,500 women with ...

Can women with low platelet counts safely undergo epidural/spinal anesthesia during labor? Available evidence suggests a low rate of complications related to abnormal blood clotting for this large ...

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