Women who used a virtual reality (VR) headset to watch relaxing immersive scenes — such as a walk through a forest or along a beach — experienced a reduction in labor pain, according to results from a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you were giving birth, what would be your choice: a longer labor with relatively less pain, or a shorter labor with terrible pain? That’s the question researchers posed ...

Childbirth is also described as perhaps one of the most intense painful experiences a woman can undergo in her lifetime. From ...

The dismissive phrase “it’s all in your head” takes on new meaning when you understand that women literally process pain through different neural pathways than men. This isn’t about pain tolerance or ...

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana ...

The demographic profile of the respondents was similar to ACNM membership in age and years of experience. The distribution of birth settings in the sample was the same as ACNM members for hospital ...

There’s a laundry list of things that men and women experience differently, but new research finds that pain may be yet another one. For the study, researchers analyzed data from two clinical trials ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hypnosis and acupuncture are promising approaches to relieve pain during labor and delivery, but more research is needed to determine whether these two strategies, as well ...