Timing of antibiotics important in reducing infections after C-section

Thursday, August 2, 2012 - 14:01 in Health & Medicine

Giving antibiotics before cesarean section surgery rather than just after the newborn's umbilical cord is clamped cuts the infection rate at the surgical site in half, according to new research.

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