Researchers observed a 13% increase in the percentage of infants delivered preterm from 2014 to 2023, from 7.74 to 8.71% among all births.

Metabolic disruptions linked PM2.5 to early birth in African American mothers * Cortexolone and lysoPE(20:3) found to mediate ...

Objectives Preterm births (PTBs) represent significant health risks, and several studies have found associations between high outdoor temperatures and PTB. We estimated both the total and natural ...

hsph.harvard.edu Background Severe stressors can induce preterm birth (PTB; gestation <37 weeks), with such stressors including social and economic threats, interpersonal violence, hate crimes and ...

Whenever possible, extreme preterm birth should be managed in a maternity facility co-located with a designated neonatal intensive care unit. Neonatal stabilisation may be considered for babies born ...

Thousands of people, mostly children, in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have contracted the vaccine-preventable disease this ...

Germany cDepartment of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, University Medical Centre of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany dInstitute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Centre of ...

A new study found exposure to specific tiny particles in air pollution during pregnancy are associated with increased risk of various negative birth outcomes.

National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK; maria.quigley{at}npeu.ox.ac.uk Objective To investigate the effect of gestational age, ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced more key changes to the CDC recommendations for COVID-19 ...

Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Spontaneous preterm birth (PTB) before 37 completed weeks of gestation resulting from preterm labor (PTL) is a ...

Purpose: To estimate whether the city-specific lockdown in Shanghai induced by the COVID-19 pandemic affected preterm birth rates among uninfected pregnant women in different trimesters. Methods: The ...