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 ...

When a healthy, petite, 21-year-old pregnant Mississippi woman approached her due date, the physician instructed her to choose a date for her labor to be induced. She offered no medical justification ...

In a discovery that could shift labor and delivery practices around the world, researchers at Michigan State University have found that the effectiveness of oxytocin—a common medication used to induce ...

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 ...

Labor induction has risen across demographic groups and gestational age categories during the past decade, an analysis of National Vital Statistics System data found. Among singleton deliveries, ...

What would it be like if a pregnant person who's close to full term, but not showing signs of delivery, was able to be induced at home? That's the question Dell Medical School researchers are studying ...