Premature labor is also called preterm labor. It’s when your body starts getting ready for birth too early in your pregnancy. Labor is premature if it starts more than 3 weeks before your due date.

An international team of researchers has conducted a proof-of-concept study that raises the ... changes that indicate an increased risk of preterm labor in pregnant women. While additional work ...

“This is a really interesting paper because it takes a completely different and new view of the pathogenesis of preterm labor ... for such early labor, infection and inflammation are thought to be the ...

2015.06.020 Provided by North Carolina State University Citation: Proof-of-concept study shows potential for using ultrasound to detect early signs of preterm labor (2015, August 18) retrieved 1 ...

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.

3 The team revealed labor-specific transcriptional signatures ... about how we can utilize this information or this concept to better reduce adverse perinatal outcomes, and I am not just talking about ...