It may not be possible to avoid preterm labor and preterm birth, but these steps may help: Your doctor will check you for risk factors of premature delivery and discuss which precautions you ...

There are few obstetrical interventions that successfully delay or prevent spontaneous preterm birth or reduce the risk factors leading ... following spontaneous labor with intact membranes ...

One factor as to why premature births rose is because more women are waiting to have babies until later in life. Becoming pregnant past 35 is considered advanced maternal age, and raises the risk ...

If the same set of molecules is found to be important in human pregnancies, it could lead to new tests to identify women who are at risk of preterm labor, as well as interventions ... DNA becomes more ...

Because she had a history of premature labor, she was at higher risk of ... preterm births in the U.S. occur in women with known risk factors for early delivery, including a history of previous ...

A study of almost 1000 pregnant women in Zimbabwe found that a daily dose of a commonly used, safe and inexpensive antibiotic ...

A new study by Emory University researchers, published Thursday in Environmental Science & Technology, found that exposure to ...

Additionally, factors associated with disproportionately higher risk of preterm birth were ... algorithm that extracted information about preterm labor triage and evaluation from hospital records.