Individuals with systemic vasculitis face increased risks for preterm delivery and hypertensive pregnancy disorders during their first births. Individuals with systemic vasculitis face increased risks ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In addition to asthma status, some asthma medications raise the risk for adverse perinatal outcomes.

A multicenter clinical trial led by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian has found that the use of corticosteroids in mothers at risk for late preterm ...

Use of antenatal corticosteroid in twin pregnancies at risk of late preterm delivery reduced the risk of severe neonatal respiratory morbidity. Risk was only reduced in neonates delivered between 12 ...

Two recent studies have renewed interest in the usefulness of progesterone supplementation during pregnancy for the prevention of preterm delivery. [1,2] The studies are based on the theory that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The IBD cohort had higher rates of preterm delivery and infants with low birthweight compared with the healthy ...

A research team at the Medical University of South Carolina reports in Cells that the complement system, part of the body's natural immune defenses, is a key driver of inflammatory responses that ...

Activity restriction does not appear to lower the risk for preterm birth in pregnant women with a short cervix; it may even ...

Brazilian researchers investigated the effects of delivery date manipulation to avoid the Carnival holiday. Their findings suggest Brazilian women are giving birth too early, impairing the health of ...

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 ...