A groundbreaking new study suggests that the gut microbiome—the trillions of bacteria living in your intestines—could play a ...

Researchers have found that the presence of certain bacteria in the maternal gut microbiome during early pregnancy is linked ...

Scientists linked a maternal gut microbe that degrades key pregnancy hormones to early labor, potentially serving as a ...

Help with gestational diabetes. One study concluded that taking probiotics during pregnancy may improve glucose metabolism.

Interventions to be studied include administration of antenatal corticosteroids, early enteral feeding, immediate kangaroo ...

Being born preterm is associated with an increased risk of death from birth until the third and fourth decades of life. According to a new study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of ...

The stress preterm infants experience at birth can carry on throughout a lifetime and cause negative health impacts later in life, necessitating the routine inclusion of birth history in medical ...

Preterm birth has lasting effects into adulthood, with very premature individuals struggling to form romantic relationships and having fewer children, according to the Bavarian Longitudinal Study.