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 ...
This week, Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Charles Rittenberg about reducing risk of preterm birth. Dr. Rittenberg is an ...
NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...
“This is a really interesting paper because it takes a completely different and new view of the pathogenesis of preterm labor,” says immunologist and developmental biologist Adrian Erlebacher of the ...
The number of preterm and early-term births in the U.S. increased between 2014 and 2022, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The preterm birth rate — babies ...
Tocolytics are short-term treatments used to allow time for interventions that can improve the outcomes of preterm labor and delivery for both mother and child. Since no single tocolytic drug is ...
Tamara Etienne's second pregnancy was freighted with risk and worry from its earliest days — exacerbated by a first pregnancy that had ended in miscarriage. A third-grade teacher at an overcrowded ...