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

or premature, labor. A normal pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks after the first day of the last period (38 weeks after fertilization). The danger of preterm labor is that it will lead to the birth of ...

University of Nevada, Reno welcomes Scott Barnett as an assistant professor in the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & ...

Doctors can treat women in preterm labor with medicines known as tocolytics, which might slow down or inhibit labor for two to seven days. That buys enough time for them to receive corticosteroid ...

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.

tocolytics for premature labor; and oxytocin, ergot alkaloids, and prostaglandin analogues for postpartum hemorrhage. The fetal and neonatal effects of therapy for the conditions that occur during ...

preterm labor, and preterm birth. Research in the last decade has also revealed a complex and significant association between IAI and cerebral palsy and other central nervous system damage in both ...

When someone goes into labor, the sac typically ruptures, also known as their water breaking. But with O’Neil’s sac exposed, she was at increased risk of complications, including premature ...