Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation, the impact of the welfare state on the reservation wage and high labor costs to finance the social secur...

Obese women are at an increased risk of antepartum pregnancy complications and are therefore more likely to require an induction of labor than normal weight women. They also have an increased rate of failing an induction of labor, a rate that rises significantly with increasing body mass index, and subsequent surgical and neonatal complications of an intrapartum cesarean delivery. This increase...

Labor pain is one of the most severe pains. Labor is a complex and individual process with varying maternal requesting analgesia. Labor analgesia must be safe and accompanied by minimal amount of unwanted consequences for both the mother and the child, as well as for the delivery procedure. Epidural analgesia is the treatment that best meets these demands. According to the American Congress of ...

UNLABELLED Medical professionals and public are concerned about the complications of pregnancy and delivery in women with epilepsy (WWE). PURPOSE Our aim was to prospectively ascertain occurrence of these complications in a cohort of WWE enrolled in a pregnancy registry. METHODS All complications during pregnancy, delivery and first 48 h of postpartum period were recorded according to the r...

Induction of labor (IOL) in previous cesarean section (SC) patients with unripe cervix represents a major challenge for obstetricians to avoid fetal and maternal complications which may be catastrophic. Termination of pregnancy (TOP) in sec-ond trimester by IOL is usually performed when complications occur, such as severe preeclampsia and ruptured membranes. The other common medical indications...

Birth injuries are a diverse set of traumas afflicting a newborn during labor and/or delivery. These range from temporary paralysis to hematomas. Herein, a comprehensive review of the birth injuries is presented, including the risk factors, classification of various paralyzes and nerve damage, as well as bleeding complications. The predicted outcomes and complications, as well as the treatment ...

BACKGROUND By analyzing the perspectives of village health worker/trainers with the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), this study aimed to investigate their level of knowledge of treatment, risks, and prevention of complications of labor and delivery and to evaluate current teaching methods. METHODS Three focus groups of six village health workers/trainers were conducted and divided a...

Induction of labor (IOL) in previous cesarean section (SC) patients with unripe cervix represents a major challenge for obstetricians to avoid fetal and maternal complications which may be catastrophic. Termination of pregnancy (TOP) in sec-ond trimester by IOL is usually performed when complications occur, such as severe preeclampsia and ruptured membranes. The other common medical indications...

OBJECTIVE To study the pregnancy outcomes in first trimester vaginal bleeding. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross sectional study was done on 60 pregnant women with first trimester vaginal bleeding referring to university hospitals affiliated to Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. All women were evaluated for the outcomes including abortion, preterm rapture of membranes, preterm labor, secon...