This Women's Health Week, we spoke with Dr. Vidanka Vasilevski from the Center for Quality and Patient Safety Research within Deakin's Institute for Health Transformation about her research published ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you are past your due date, your health care provider might offer you a membrane sweep. Learn what a membrane sweep is and what ...

A new national study has found that inducing labor in first-time mothers at 39 weeks can help prevent cesarean births and high blood pressure. The University of Texas Medical Branch participated in ...

Labor induction is one of the most common medical procedures in the world, with nearly one-quarter of women who deliver in the U.S. undergoing the procedure each year (totaling roughly 1 million).

A surprising new study finds first-time healthy moms may be able to safely shorten their pregnancies to avoid complications. The research finds inducing labor at 39 weeks resulted in lower rates of ...

From 2016 to 2024, there was an increase in labor induction rates across all maternal age groups and across all six race and Hispanic origin groups, according to a March data brief published by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: lizzy.beshea / tiktok At 40 weeks pregnant, many moms are searching for anything—anything—to get labor going. So when one ...

Researchers have found that the effectiveness of oxytocin—a common medication used to induce or speed up labor—depends on the time of day it’s administered, especially for patients with gestational ...