To compare time to delivery between two induction procedures. The Foley balloon is a mechanical method for cervical ripening. However, the device may also result in endogenous prostaglandin release ...

Melbourne researchers have found that one of two common methods to induce labor is safer for babies, although both were as safe for the mother and neither led to more cesarean births. The findings ...

Fifty-two patients with oligohydramnios ⩽5 cm and Bishop score ⩽6 were randomized for labor induction with a vaginal insert containing 10 mg timed-release dinoprostone (PGE2) or double-balloon ...

When NICE looked at the evidence, it decided that inserting a double balloon catheter to induce labour in pregnant women who have not had a previous caesarean section is safe enough and works well ...

This section describes safety outcomes from the published literature that the committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see the ...