Maternal hypertension is linked to poorer cognitive, language outcomes in preterm 2-year-olds, partly due to early brain abnormalities.

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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have uncovered a surprising signal: inconsistent sleep patterns in early ...

Through a new partnership with Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center, a rural maternal health clinic will bring doula services to Kansas City's Westside. The post Fewer preterm births and C-sections. Doulas ...

This biobank is key to their groundbreaking research on preterm labor. Our researchers – myself, Iain Buxton, Heather Burkin and Craig Ulrich – are creating a “molecular map” of the uterus during ...

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 ...

Preterm birth is a leading cause of infant deaths in the United States. For every 1,000 babies born in 2023, about six died, according to provisional data released Thursday by the US Centers for ...

I n 2017, Dr. Barbi Phelps-Sandall, an obstetrician who has been practicing in the San Francisco Bay area for more than two decades, had just learned about a new blood test only available at ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A noninvasive wearable device may be able to predict preterm births by monitoring changes in maternal heart rate variability, a new study suggests. The peer-reviewed ...

Additionally, the experiences of being poor, a person of color, and pregnant are inherently stressful. This stress compounded with living in extreme heat has been shown to lead to preterm labor.

A UC San Francisco-led study has for the first time identified genetic variants that predict whether a patient is likely to respond to treatment for preterm birth, a condition that affects 1 in 10 ...