A new review including over 100 clinical trials has found that no induction method was clearly effective than low-dose ...

A new review including over 100 clinical trials has found that 13 common methods for medically inducing labor are similarly effective, but their safety profiles differ according to clinical context.

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.

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

Medscape: What are the drawbacks to induced labor? Dr. Bingham: We want to make sure women are aware of the risks of induction, one of which is higher rates of hemorrhage. There is also the risk that ...

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 ...

For women who remain pregnant beyond 39 weeks, common clinical practice has been based largely on observational studies comparing labor induction with spontaneous labor. New research findings are ...

H.L. is a 25-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 1-0-0-0 admitted to the birth unit at 38 and 6/7 weeks' gestation for induction of labor because of an obstetric history of a previous intrauterine fetal ...