In people not adapted to life at altitude, the sparse oxygen can impair fetal growth, causing issues that can last a lifetime ...

The Friedman curve, the gold standard for rates of cervical dilation and fetal descent during active labor, was developed almost 50 years ago. To define a modern curve for normal labor ...

The suit claims Mutat used the vacuum "inappropriately," and failed to abandon it, to appreciate or document the lack of fetal descent after he did use it. The complaint notes he failed to ...

In Leadville, a Colorado mining town at over 10,000 feet, scientists observed in the 1950s that babies of European descent had significantly ... even before fetal growth slows down.