Dilation and effacement are your body's way of getting ready for labor – your cervix gradually opens (dilates) and thins out (effaces) to help your baby make that grand entrance. This process ...

The plastic cervical ring contains MIV-150, a compound developed and being tested by scientists at the non-profit Population Council. In experiments with macaques, only two of 17 female monkeys ...

The Friedman curve, the gold standard for rates of cervical dilation and fetal descent during active labor, was developed almost 50 years ago. To define a modern curve for normal labor ...

"For women with twin pregnancies and early signs of labor and cervix dilation, there was really very little we could offer," says first author, Amanda Roman, MD, Associate Professor in the ...