Women with a history of successfully treated preterm labour who delivered at term faced a higher risk for preterm birth during the subsequent pregnancy than those who delivered at term without any ...

St. David's North Austin Medical Center participated in study to analyze biomarkers and then offer early labor preventions.

Going into preterm labor doesn't necessarily mean you'll have your baby early. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), about 30% of women who experience ...

Being born preterm is associated with an increased risk of death from birth until the third and fourth decades of life. According to a new study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of ...

A full-term pregnancy lasts around 40 weeks. However, sometimes labour may start early. If labour starts after 20 weeks and before 37 weeks, then it is called preterm labour or premature labour. This ...

Legislation championed by U.S. Senators John Boozman, R-Ark., and Michael Bennet D-Colo., extending critical federal research, education and intervention activities aimed at reducing preterm birth and ...

The PREEMIE Reauthorization Act, signed into law by President Trump, extends funding through 2030 to reduce preterm births and infant mortality rates, and provides grants to help physicians and the ...

The U.S. has landed another poor grade when it comes to preterm births, with festering disparities in outcomes for Black and Native women that are life-threatening, according to a new annual report.

Why are babies born prematurely? Researchers still don't really know. Progress has been slow in part because much of the research to date on preterm birth has approached pregnancy from the perspective ...

In the last decade, 152 million infants worldwide were born preterm — and while preterm birth rates are not changing, death rates from preterm birth complications are on the rise, according to a May 9 ...