Researchers discovered a molecular timer that gets activated in the first days of pregnancy and influences when mice give ...

The danger of preterm labor is that it will lead to the birth of a baby that has not fully developed, and therefore has a high risk of complications. About 10% of all pregnancies result in ...

A typical human pregnancy lasts 40 weeks ... these genes were not activated on time, delaying labor. Signals could be linked to preterm birth While the new study did not directly study preterm ...

If the same set of molecules is found to be important in human pregnancies, it could lead to new tests to identify women who are at risk of preterm labor, as well as interventions to delay it.

A typical human pregnancy lasts 40 weeks ... to identify women who are at risk of preterm labor, as well as interventions to delay it. "Preterm birth is a huge problem around the world, and ...

people giving birth can’t count on their closest hospital having the specialized health care they need. Researchers tallied losses and gains of labor and delivery units at close to 5,000 U.S ...

Birdsall is among a growing population of women who are foregoing the traditional labor and delivery unit in a hospital and are instead giving birth in centers run by midwives. Birdsall's youngest ...