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, these ...

A passing glance at the August jobs report released today by the US Labor Department would suggest an economy headed in the wrong direction. After all, the unemployment rate shot up to 3.8% from 3.5% ...

Policy makers are desperately searching for the best methods of measuring the health and strength of the labor market because different data points, and even the same ones from month to month are ...

Public health officials across the U.S. say the number of cesarean sections being performed has gotten way out of hand. It's a life-saving surgery for complicated births, but today nearly a third of ...

Even the best manager cannot run a restaurant with no staff. While that may seem hyperbolic, an industry long used to labor shortages and high turnover must pull out all of the stops to deal with the ...