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Louisiana hospitals have locked up a key drug used to stop women from bleeding out after giving birth as a new state law takes effect Tuesday. The law, named Act 246, classifies two common pregnancy ...

Imagine a mother on the brink of a fatal hemorrhage after childbirth. The medicine that could save her life is delayed — not because it isn’t available but because of new bureaucratic hurdles that ...

A year ago, Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill into law that made Louisiana the first state in the country to reclassify pregnancy care drugs as controlled dangerous substances. Since then, the political ...

New research will help in the quest to design low-cost drugs that can tackle postpartum bleeding and other conditions without severe side effects DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Every year, ...

ATLANTA — For the induction of labor, a combination of methods is more effective than a single method, according to results from the randomized Foley or Misoprostol for the Management of Induction ...

Admissions for labor induction from January 2008 to December 2010 were reviewed. Patients receiving oral misoprostol were compared with those receiving vaginal dinoprostone. The primary outcome was ...

Misoprostol (Cytotec) is safe and effective for induction of labor, although it is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in pregnancy. In August 2000, the manufacturer of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nearly all women taking misoprostol alone had a complete abortion without procedural intervention. Most women ...

Ebony Marcelle, the director of midwifery at Community of Hope in Washington, D.C., started her doctoral degree after more than a decade of working as a midwife. A Georgetown University School of ...