Premature labor is also called preterm labor. It’s when your body starts getting ready for birth too early in your pregnancy. Labor is premature if it starts more than 3 weeks before your due date .

E very day, as I rush to preterm deliveries on the labor floor of my safety-net hospital and work beside incubators and clear plastic hospital bassinets, one of my patients’ mothers confides to ...

This observation, since confirmed in other populations, identified and characterized 2 distinct mechanistic subgroups of patients with preterm labor or premature rupture of membranes, giving ...

It noted that risk of preterm labor is higher for Black and other minority women and argued that withdrawal of accelerated approval “would have significant negative public health consequences ...

In a recent study published in Science Translational Medicine, Gomez-Lopez collaborated with researchers and clinicians to create a single-cell atlas of the placenta during labor. 3 The team revealed ...

The US cities with high preterm birth rates also are “areas where there are many chronic conditions and patients living with a greater number of things like hypertension, diabetes, obesity ...

Heat can lead to preterm labor and sick babies. Haywood St.'s 41 affordable apartments named for Asheville activist Gloria Howard Free. ... and a patient’s water to break early, ...