Hospitals across the country reported mothers to authorities after they tested positive for medications used routinely in ...

Hainan joined many other regions across the country in August in adding suitable labor pain relief to the health insurance ...

Acupuncture can ease the pain of childbirth for women and help them to relax, scientists have discovered. Women who had the alternative therapy were less likely to ask for an epidural, they said.

Suffering, which is different from pain, is not an outcome that is usually measured after childbirth. We assumed that suffering is unlikely if indicators of satisfaction were positive after ...

Localities in China are subsidising the use of pain relief treatments during childbirth – a practice patients often shy away from due to high costs – in one of many trial policies authorities ...

The notion that women are told to bear pain is rooted in societal and historical factors that have influenced attitudes ...

The pain and distress of women is often normalized or ignored. How can we better acknowledge the pain experiences of women ...