During intensive care after preterm births, babies can experience low oxygen in their tissue and cells—or hypoxia. Hypoxia is ...

Black women living in states with abortion bans were more likely to have preterm babies, compared with what would be expected ...

How does mild hypoxia affect preterm babies? New research identifies a molecular mechanism that disrupts hippocampal ...

New research suggests the risks tied to early pregnancy exposure to popular weight loss drugs may not be the same for every ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (UPI) --A noninvasive wearable device may be able to predict preterm births by monitoring changes in maternal heart rate variability, a new study suggests. The peer-reviewed study ...

The study looked at more than 53 million singleton births that occurred in the 50 most populous cities in the U.S. during the hottest months of the year. Looking back at heat waves between May and ...

Microbiologist Yiping Han of the Case Western Reserve University dental school has four more years of funding to continue her work on the connection between oral bacteria and preterm birth, as well as ...

A new study has found that babies exposed to cannabis in the womb may be at greater risk of certain adverse birth outcomes such as low birth weight and preterm birth. A peer-reviewed study published ...

Chemicals commonly used for plastic in food containers, lotion and other products are linked to tens of thousands of preterm births in the U.S. each year, according to a new study. Those babies’ ...

Researchers evaluating whether endometriosis is linked with preterm birth found no such association in a multicenter cohort study of more than 1300 women. These new findings, which were published ...