Researchers observed no differences in rates of cesarean delivery among women with prolonged labor who were administered propranolol vs. placebo, findings presented at The Pregnancy Meeting showed ...

Discontinuing oxytocin during active labor is associated with a 20% lower risk for cesarean delivery.

Daria Marchak, First Deputy Minister of Social Policy, noted that about 1.7 million Ukrainians who were working before the ...

WebMD provides information about what causes prolonged labor and what your doctor might do in that circumstance.

The "active labor" dilation rate findings of our systematic review closely align with those by Zhang et al., [3] who reported that it takes approximately 5.5 hours for nulliparas to dilate from 4 ...

Researchers found that excessive weight gain during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of prolonged labor in Japanese women, emphasizing the importance of monitoring weight gain to prevent ...

Other times, and for a variety of reasons, your practitioner may opt to artificially break your water to speed up labor using a procedure called amniotomy.

In conclusion, women with diabetes mellitus who underwent PG labor induction had significantly prolonged times to active labor and delivery and lower rates of delivery within 36 or 48 h, due to a ...

Young adults sit 60-plus hours per week, boosting their heart disease risk and accelerating signs of aging, according to new research. Vigorous exercise works best to counteract it, but sitting less ...

In an effort to curtail caesarean sections, two prominent medical groups issued guidelines Wednesday calling for doctors to let first-time mothers remain in labor longer, and push harder, to see ...