Over time, listening to the journeys that brought my patients’ parents to the NICUs of North Philadelphia helped me realize what others already understood: the preterm birth epidemic is not only ...

The findings highlighted how much is still unknown about what causes preterm birth. “Even if there are 52 million births in the study, it is not going to immediately answer all the questions ...

Preterm birth can occur unexpectedly in an otherwise normal-seeming pregnancy. It looks no different from the early signs of a typical labor, except that it occurs before 37 weeks of pregnancy.

Preterm-born survivors had decreased lung function, especially those with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, compared with term-born infants, but decreased values improved over time, according to ...

In the meantime, we provide for the first time some reliable risk estimates for first time moms based on their and their family history of preterm birth.” Other contributors to this work include ...

ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- March of Dimes, the nation's leader in mom and baby health, today released its 2021 Report Card revealing that for the first time in six years that U ...

Preterm birth can have lasting implications for both babies and their parents and World Prematurity Day on November 17 raises awareness for these complications. However, premature birth rates are ...

Preterm birth — when ... In 2021, just over one in 10 babies were born preterm, and ... as data from the National Center for Health Statistics recently showed an uptick for the first time ...

Predicting preterm birth can be difficult, especially for women who have not given birth. It has long been known that the best predictor of preterm birth is someone who has had a prior preterm ...

In that excitement over being able to save the profoundly premature infants, medicine lost sight for a while of the fact that the infants born at 34 and 35 and 36 and 37 weeks gestation “weren ...

RNA-based tests for both preeclampsia and preterm-birth risk are inching their way toward the clinic. Mirvie, a company co-founded by Quake in South San Francisco, is focused on developing both.