Researchers have identified a cause of preterm labor, an enigma that has long challenged researchers. New research suggests a protein, called Piezo1, is responsible for regulating the behavior of the ...

Preterm labor comprises 12.7% of all pregnancies. Although the overall rate of pregnancy is decreasing, the occurrence of premature birth due to preterm labor in south korea has been increasing over ...

“How do you know whether a mother will deliver preterm or not? Well, the short answer is, we don't know,” said Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, an immunologist who studies obstetrics and gynecology at Washington ...

New research shows that Rytvela, an anti-inflammatory drug candidate, decreased premature birth and infant mortality when ...

A baby is preterm if born before 37 weeks of gestational age. Preterm births can be caused by health conditions in the birthing parent and can lead to developmental complications in babies. Asian and ...

UCSF researchers discovered a molecular timer that gets activated in the first days of pregnancy and influences when mice give birth. A typical human pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, but most parents know ...

In the 21st century, human tissue can be generated from stem cells and severed limbs are successfully reattached, while the physiological processes governing life’s most fundamental event—childbirth ...

In honor of Women’s Health Month, reproductive health researcher and Assistant Professor Scott Barnett from the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology shares the sobering reality of the rising ...

The new compound called Rytvela prevents preterm birth and organ damage in animal studies by stopping inflammation, whereas the common drug nifedipine failed.

The price of preventing preterm labor is about to go through the roof. A drug for high-risk pregnant women has cost about $10 to $20 per injection. Next week, the price shoots up to $1,500 a dose, ...