In the United States every year, more than 530,000 babies are born before reaching the 37th week of gestation. That’s about 12.7% of all births in the US, District of Columbia (DC), and Puerto Rico, a rate that the March…

When a woman experiences premature labor during pregnancy, she may be given an intravenous treatment of magnesium sulfate as a means of delaying labor and preventing premature delivery.  A new study reveals the treatment may come with an added bonus…

Describing their findings as a "little shocking," researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine say amniotic fluid infections occur at a much higher rate than previously imagined and these same infections seem to be a trigger that causes premature…

Modern medicine has made it possible for more and more babies born early to survive a rocky beginning and the majority of them grow up to enjoy a healthy and prosperous adult life. A number of them, however, seem to…