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 ...

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 ...

For obese pregnant women, elective induction of labor at 39 to 41 weeks of gestation may be a better choice than expectant management, the results of a study suggest. Compared with expectant ...

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 ...

Pregnant women continue to suffer and die unnecessarily from hypertensive disorders, a leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide. Conditions such as pre-eclampsia and eclampsia (PE/E)—which are ...

As the due date approaches, many expectant mothers hope to welcome their little ones naturally and comfortably, exploring gentle ways to encourage labor without turning to medical interventions.

Whether your due date is just around the corner or has come and gone, you may be understandably eager to speed up the labor process. Problem is, most of the popular labor induction techniques — like ...

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 ...

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