Researchers discovered a molecular timer that gets activated in the first days of pregnancy and influences when mice give ...

For many women, pregnancy can come with unexpected challenges including preterm labor and other health complications.

or premature, labor. A normal pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks after the first day of the last period (38 weeks after fertilization). The danger of preterm labor is that it will lead to the birth of ...

A new study has found that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate in the placenta at much higher levels in preterm births ...

Doctors can treat women in preterm labor with medicines known as tocolytics, which might slow down or inhibit labor for two to seven days. That buys enough time for them to receive corticosteroid ...

3 The team revealed labor-specific transcriptional signatures that were also present in subsets of preterm labor patients, adding new insight to the maternal and fetal pathways that govern term and ...

Improving the screening accuracy for preterm labor: is the combination of fetal fibronectin and cervical length in symptomatic patients a useful predictor of preterm birth? a systematic review.

When someone goes into labor, the sac typically ruptures ... to the end of pregnancy to decrease preeclampsia and preterm birth in patients who are at risk for preeclampsia,” Williams said.

For example, many patients report facial flushing and warmth ... temporarily slow or stop preterm labor, and help protect a ...

preterm labor and delivery, and postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Medications routinely used in a labor-delivery unit are a small fraction of those used in some other patient care areas of a hospital ...