Cervical length measurement during the first trimester may help identify twin pregnancies at risk for preterm birth before 34 weeks of gestation.

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 study ...

According to the March of Dimes, preterm birth and low birthweight-related health complications cause 37.5% of infant deaths ...

The study goes to 2014, but preterm births have been going up in the US for a lot longer than that.” Stanhope, who wasn’t involved with the new research, said that the trend of people having children ...

Babies born prematurely, even just a couple weeks early, may be at increased risk of autism, a large new study suggests. It's long been known that autism, a developmental brain disorder, is more ...

One in 10 babies in the U.S. – nearly 374,000 infants – were born preterm in 2023, meaning before 37 weeks of pregnancy. More ...

Preterm babies could be at higher risk of certain diseases as adults Past research has demonstrated that phathalates — known as “everywhere chemicals” because they are so common — are hormone ...

Microbiologist Yiping Han of the Case Western Reserve University dental school has four more years of funding to continue her work on the connection between oral bacteria and preterm birth, as well as ...

Individuals who contract COVID-19 while pregnant face a higher risk of having a very preterm birth, as well as any preterm birth, according to a large study led by researchers at UC San Francisco.

Chemicals commonly used for plastic in food containers, lotion and other products are linked to tens of thousands of preterm births in the U.S. each year, according to a new study. Those babies’ ...