A new review including over 100 clinical trials has found that 13 common methods for medically inducing labor are similarly ...

A new review including over 100 clinical trials has found that no induction method was clearly effective than low-dose vaginal misoprostol, although some methods were less effective and safety ...

Alternative methods (such as acupuncture and herbal supplements). We wanted to know the most effective and safest labour induction method for pregnant women at or after 37 weeks with a live baby.

Medically reviewed by Alyssa Dweck, MS, MD, FACOG Key Points Labor induction can take a few hours or a few days depending on ...

Many women felt insufficiently informed about the risks of induction A new study has found that two-thirds of women weren’t ...

Has your doctor suggested inducing labor? Find out when and how labor might need to be induced.

In the first study of its kind, researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin have shown that it is safe for first-time mothers to spend the first 24 ...

The authors found that women allocated to extra-amniotic F2α prostaglandins were more likely to be not vaginally delivered within 24 hours than women receiving vaginal misoprostol (1 trial, 152 women, ...

The relative risk of major complications from the use of misoprostol to induce labor, when used as currently recommended by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, compared with other ...

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