| Inducing labor in first-time mothers at 39 weeks can help prevent cesarean births, finds study |
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August 14, 2018 |
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The latest pregnancy / maternal health news from News Medical |
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 | | |  Inducing labor in first-time mothers at 39 weeks can help prevent cesarean births, finds study A new national study has found that inducing labor in first-time mothers at 39 weeks can help prevent cesarean births and high blood pressure.
The University of Texas Medical Branch participated in the study and Dr. George Saade, chief of obstetrics and the principal investigator at UTMB, said that babies born to women induced at 39 weeks did not have worse outcomes compared to those who were not induced at 39 weeks. | |
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| | |  A research team have identified the mechanism by which the fertilized egg balances out chromosomes inherited from the mother and the father. | | | | |  The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has released new treatment guidelines for a group of rare cancers that impact women during pregnancy. | | | | |  Women with intellectual and developmental disabilities have nearly double the rate of having another baby within a year of delivering compared to women without such disabilities, according to a new study published in CMAJ. | | | | |  Adolescents who received funding to help pay for an abortion experienced greater hardships that affected abortion access compared to adult abortion-fund patients, according to the results of a new study by a University at Buffalo social work researcher. | | | | |  A new enhanced recovery after surgery process -; also known as ERAS -; has been developed and implemented at the University of Alabama at Birmingham to help enhance a mother's recovery after a cesarean delivery, one of the most common surgeries performed in the United States. | |
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