Melatonin reduced infection-related inflammation in human fetal membranes in an ex vivo model. The study suggests that this ...

Researchers find that declining placental NAD+ levels may promote labor onset, opening new avenues for predicting preterm ...

Magnesium sulfate has been shown to reduce the risk of cerebral palsy in some preterm babies by about 29%. Yet despite strong ...

Preterm birth has lasting effects into adulthood, with very premature individuals struggling to form romantic relationships and having fewer children, according to the Bavarian Longitudinal Study.

Preterm birth is a common cause of dystonia. Though dystonia is often associated with striatal dysfunction after neonatal brain injury, cortical dysfunction may best predict dystonia following preterm ...

Preterm birth prediction is essential for improving neonatal outcomes. While many machine learning techniques have been applied to predict preterm birth using health records, inflammatory markers, and ...

Researchers found that the amount of greenery near a mother’s home was linked to birth weight, and that the strongest ...

When Rupa Basu was pregnant with her second child, her body temperature felt out of control — particularly as her third trimester began in the summer of 2007. It wasn’t particularly hot in Oakland, ...

Each year in the United States, approximately 370,000 babies are born prematurely, meaning born before 37 weeks of pregnancy, representing about 10.4% of all live births. These infants face higher ...

Temperatures climb to new record highs every summer. In many parts of Europe, this marks the start of the most dangerous time ...

Share on Pinterest Premature births in the U.S. have increased over the past decade, but the reasons remain unclear. mkl/Getty Images A recent CDC report shows that preterm birth rates in the U.S.

Declining placental concentrations of a molecule that plays a key role in metabolism appear to trigger the end of pregnancy ...