Roughly 1 in 10 babies worldwide is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy—a birth considered preterm. These infants are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.