Use of epidurals also on the rise ...

The headlines linking labor induction and autism risk are splashy--aren't they always with "autism linked to" stories? My favorite misstatement of the research is in this headline from Bloomberg: ...

A Canadian population-based cohort study has revealed that medical induction of labor increases the risk of amniotic-fluid embolism. The study was led by Dr. Michael Kramer, Canadian Institutes of ...

Randomized clinical trials have shown that induction of labour does not result in higher caesarean delivery rates in women who are postterm. Despite this evidence, the policy of inducing women who are ...

Obstetricians have suspected for some time that jump-starting labor ups the chances that a woman will have a Cesarean delivery. WHYY reports on a new study that puts numbers to that risk.

Initiating labor in a pregnant woman without contractions seems to be a simple way to explain induction of labor. For many women, induction is becoming increasingly more common. In fact, induction has ...

A labor induction is when you or your healthcare provider brings labor on instead of waiting for it to happen naturally. It can be done for medical reasons, for an overdue baby, or if the baby is old ...

Among 20,215 deliveries, 16.9% were to individuals with normal weight, 43.1% to those with overweight, 35.1% to those with class I-II obesity, and 4.9% to those with class III obesity, with maximum ...