Advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are again recommending a drug that aims to prevent preterm births be taken off the market over doubts regarding its effectiveness. This week, the ...

UNR Med scientists have identified a cause of preterm labor, an enigma that has long challenged researchers. New research by Iain Buxton, Pharm.D., Scott Barnett, Ph.D., and Hazik Asif, Ph.D., MPH, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The frequency of active treatment in newborns born between 22 and 25 weeks’ gestation increased over 7 years in ...

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 ...

A UC San Francisco-led study has for the first time identified genetic variants that predict whether patients will respond to treatment for preterm birth, a condition that affects one in 10 infants ...

Lowering the body temperature of preterm infants (born at 33 to 35 weeks of pregnancy) with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE -- a type of brain damage caused by oxygen loss -- offers no benefits ...

Lowering the body temperature of preterm infants (born at 33 to 35 weeks of pregnancy) with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)-a type of brain damage caused by oxygen loss-offers no benefits over ...

Researchers have identified a cause of preterm labor, an enigma that has long challenged researchers. New research suggests a protein, called Piezo1, is responsible for regulating the behavior of the ...

Lowering the body temperature of preterm infants (born at 33 to 35 weeks of pregnancy) with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)—a type of brain damage caused by oxygen loss—offers no benefits over ...