China said that by the end of this year all tertiary level hospitals must offer epidural anesthesia during childbirth, a move ...

The country began piloting the expansion of childbirth anesthesia at 912 hospitals across 30 provincial-level regions in 2018. At those hospitals, the prevalence of pain relief use rose from 27.5 ...

Authorities said the move would help promote a "friendly childbearing environment" for women. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

China’s health policy makers are seeking to expand access to epidurals, spinal blocks, and other forms of labour analgesia in a country where officials say that seven in 10 vaginal deliveries take ...

With only 30 per cent of Chinese women currently receiving pain relief during labour, China moves to close the gap and make ...

Labor and delivery can last hours or days and involve painful contractions, stretching, tearing, and pressure. Pain management has become an essential part of childbirth. The epidural is one of ...

In 2018, China launched a national pilot program to promote labor pain relief, participated in by more than 900 hospitals. As ...

If you’ve ever been in labor, or know someone who has, you’ve heard of an epidural. The term is an adjective that has also become a noun, describing one of the most common analgesic procedures ...

the unmedicated birth experience that I'd hoped for slowly began to unravel. When the epidural was offered late into labor, I didn't think I had a choice but to take it Hours after I was admitted ...

including an epidural,” she adds. “People have this idea that having an unmedicated birth is better and makes them more powerful and more motherly,” Dr. La Toya Luces-Sampson, an OB-GYN ...

China is mandating epidurals in all tertiary hospitals by the year-end to promote a more friendly childbearing environment for women.