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 ...

One of the very first things that need to happen before cervical dilation takes place is cervix ripening or cervical softening. Women’s bodies are all different and there isn’t a precise length of ...

Recently, in a significant shift toward accessible, patient-driven health care, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first at-home cervical ... sexual assault kits (SAKs), at a time ...

In the United States, cervical cancer was once one of the deadliest cancers for women, but thanks to prevention and screening, numbers have dropped by more than half since the 1970s.However, due to ...

Conditions that might lead an OB/GYN to recommend against having sex, according to Tang, include an early cervical dilation or weakening, concern about risk of uterine infection, placenta covering ...