When a pregnant woman's water breaks too early, it often leads to preterm birth, with no effective method to prevent or treat ...

Compared with full-term infants, those born preterm have a higher risk for psychological and physical health comorbidities in adulthood.

Women's gut health may affect their risk of preterm birth, new research suggests. Preterm birth can have many causes and risk factors, and researchers in China may have identified another one: the ...

A groundbreaking new study suggests that the gut microbiome—the trillions of bacteria living in your intestines—could play a ...

Women delivering at term during the first pregnancy after an episode of preterm labour treated with tocolysis face a higher ...

Adults born preterm were significantly more likely to have cardiometabolic risk factors and internalized mental health issues than full-term peers, according to an ongoing preterm birth cohort study ...

Over the last 20 years, substance use-related deaths have more than doubled for women of reproductive age. Overdose deaths ...

The impact of inflammation on a child born preterm can be life-changing and now, for the first time, researchers have ...

Despite its status as one of the wealthiest nations in the world, experts say America’s health care system is in need of major improvements. That’s especially true for mothers and infants. Case in ...

Use of antenatal corticosteroid in twin pregnancies at risk of late preterm delivery reduced the risk of severe neonatal respiratory morbidity. Risk was only reduced in neonates delivered between 12 ...

(CNN) — Being rushed to a hospital nearly two hours away, in the middle of a dangerous spring storm – with fear in her heart and amniotic fluid leaking down her leg – was not how Ashley O’Neil ...