Most hospital training labs use basic dummies or simple mannequins to teach medical skills. Students practice procedures, learn techniques and move on to real patients later. But a new childbirth ...

It's been a big day for Noelle. It's only noon, and the medical mannequin has given birth at least a dozen times already. First, it was a series of uncomplicated births. Then, it was births with ...

On a Friday morning in early September, a group of women sit cross-legged facing small candles and flowers in a softly-lit birth training room in Hartford. Six of the women form a circle around a ...

VALLEJO, Calif. — She's given birth in Afghanistan, California and dozens of points in between. Her name is Noelle, and she's a lifelike, pregnant robot used in increasing numbers of medical schools ...