Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There is no neonatal benefit or harm when using tocolytic drugs for threatened premature birth after 30 weeks’ ...

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 ...

The contraction inhibitor atosiban (Tractocile) was no better than placebo for neonatal outcomes in the context of threatened preterm birth, the investigators in the multicenter, randomized, ...

St. David's North Austin Medical Center participated in study to analyze biomarkers and then offer early labor preventions.

AURORA, Colo. -- Atosiban, an oxytocin receptor antagonist available in Europe, was not superior to placebo in improving neonatal outcomes for threatened preterm birth between 30 and 34 weeks' ...

February 17, 2011 (UPDATED February 27, 2011)— Clinicians should not use injectable terbutaline to prevent preterm labor or treat it beyond 48 to 72 hours because of the risk for maternal heart ...

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 ...

When a baby arrives before 37 weeks of pregnancy—it can bring along a host of health problems for the baby that leads to emotional stress for the family. While medical care has improved, many preterm ...

Increasing the activity level of women with gestational diabetes reduced the risk of preterm labor. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during pregnancy is inversely associated with the risk ...

No previous study has been conducted in Nigeria on the role of neutrophil elastase in predicting preterm birth. The present study aimed to determine the role of the neutrophil elastase test in ...

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 ...