Usha Joseph, who underwent surgery to remove an artery forceps left in her abdomen post-surgery in 2021, has been successfully discharged from a private hospital.

The birth of your baby should be the happiest time of your life. But for Emma Portogallo and her partner Daniel Cutillo, the day their son Xavier was born, December 21 last year, is etched for ever as ...

Forceps and vacuum deliveries are relatively rare, occurring in just 3% of vaginal births. In these “assisted” deliveries, your healthcare practitioner uses either a vacuum device or forceps to help ...

With her long eyelashes and black hair, Alexandra was, says her mother Beatrix, ‘the most beautiful thing I could imagine’. The newborn, who weighed 9lb 4oz, had been conceived through IVF after five ...

The use of forceps during delivery is associated with muscle damage that can lead to later pelvic organ prolapse, Australian researchers found. In a prospective cohort study, use of forceps was ...

The mother of a boy who died after being delivered using forceps says she "would never have agreed" to their use had she been made aware of the dangers. Finley May died on 16 March 2021 from brain ...

Kochi: Usha Joseph, the Punnapra native in whose abdomen a pair of artery forceps was left behind, was discharged from Amrita Hospital after undergoin.

Imagine if the public discovered that a small group of surgeons had invented something—a device that could save the lives of women and babies—but had kept this device a closely guarded secret for more ...

The first randomized controlled trial of forceps-assisted cannulation during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has shown that this technique can significantly improve the success ...