SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Four in 10 South Korean women delivered their babies through cesarean sections, with the numbers going up with the age of the mother giving birth, data showed Monday. According to the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), 42.3 percent of mothers opted to use surgery to have [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Korean mothers giving birth to their first child received caesarean sections in 2017, data showed Sunday, with the percentage rising over recent years. According to the data compiled by the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service, 48.8 percent of mothers giving birth for the first [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study from the Korea University Guro Hospital revealed delayed childbearing and cesarean section delivery increases the risk of breast cancer by 280 percent. The researchers looked at the correlation between the incidence of breast cancer and late childbirth and c-section delivery, and found that mothers who gave birth [...]