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12Jan10 Inducing labor may lead to more C-sections

Reuters Health posted an article last week about the increase of c-sections due to induced labor.
Dr. J. Christopher Glantz at the University of Rochester School of Medicine found that “inducing labor introduces a risk of 1 to 2 cesareans per 25 inductions that might have been avoided by waiting for spontaneous labor to begin.”
C-sections are [...]