Declining placental concentrations of a molecule that plays a key role in metabolism appear to trigger the end of pregnancy and hasten labor and delivery, suggesting a study co-led by researchers at ...

The tendency to lump preterm babies into one group hinders efforts to tailor care for any one child, researchers say. Now a new study, published online August 13 in the journal Child Development, ...

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

More than one in 10 infants worldwide are born preterm, many with complications: Nearly 1 million die each year. This is the single largest cause of death in children around the world before their ...

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 ...

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.

Globally, ∼10% of infants are born before full term. Preterm birth exposes the heart to the demands of postnatal cardiovascular function before cardiac development is complete. Our aim was to examine, ...

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