Taking folic acid for a year before pregnancy may reduce risk of preterm birth
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., MAY 11, 2009 Women who take folic acid supplements for at least one year before they become pregnant may cut their risk of having a premature baby by half, according to research published this week in the online journal, PLoS Medicine . The study links pre-conceptional fol...Safely transporting a preterm or low birth weight infant
INDIANAPOLIS New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics should eliminate one of the many stresses of bringing a preterm or low birth weight infant home from the hospital. The new AAP clinical report, "Safe Transportation of Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants at Hospital Discharge...New, simple method identifies preterm infants at risk of eye disease
A simple way of establishing which preterm infants are at risk of developing the eye disease ROP is to follow their weight gain. A new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, suggests that following weekly weight development might replace the need for considerably mor...Spanish Exercise DVD Helps Latinas Reduce Risk of Preterm Labor
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2007, Bedrest Fitness was released offering pregnant women on prescribed bed rest an exercise program. The first of its kind, Bedrest Fitness is a series of modified exercises that women on bed rest or restricted activity can perform to help maint...March of Dimes Provides $2.7 Million in New Funding For Preterm Birth Research
Innovative Scientists Aim to Predict and Prevent Preterm Birth WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scientists intend to identify microbes that may cause preterm labor in some women, investigate the role of an enzyme in...Effectiveness of Progesterone in Reducing Preterm Births May Be Altered by Genetic Predisposition
March of Dimes Awards Abstract at SMFM Meeting. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New research that may explain why taking progesterone to prevent preterm birth is only effective for some women was unveiled today at the 29th Annual Society...Gum Disease Treatment Doesn't Cut Preterm Birth Risk
They may share common underlying trait, but connection is vague, study says THURSDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Treating gum disease doesn't decrease a woman's risk of preterm birth, according to a U.S. study that challenges previous research suggesting a link. As a result of thos...New study explores the relationship between preterm birth and autism spectrum disorder
Cincinnati, OH, January 29, 2009 -- Recent studies have suggested that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may be more prevalent among children born very prematurely. The early symptoms of ASD are also associated with other conditions related to preterm births, such as cerebral palsy, which can make i...Late Preterm Birth Poses Developmental Risks
Caesarean or induction should not be done before 39 weeks unless necessary, study says THURSDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Late preterm birth puts newborns at increased risk for serious problems, according to U.S. researchers. Dr. Joann Petrini of the March of Dimes and colleague...Taking Folic Acid for a Year Before Pregnancy May Reduce Risk of Preterm Birth
Findings Reinforce March of Dimes Message: Start Taking a Vitamin with Folic Acid Before Pregnancy WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Women who take folic acid supplements for at least one year before they become pregnant may cut their risk of having a premature baby by hal...Huge Drop in Preterm Birth-Risk Among Women Taking Folic Acid One Year Before Conception
Largest U.S. Study of Pre-conceptional Folic Acid Supplementation Receives March of Dimes Award DALLAS, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New research suggests that women who take folic acid supplements for at least one year before they become pregnant can cut their risk of having a prema...Progesterone Therapy and Preterm Birth: More Evidence Helps Identify Women Who Can Benefit
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., AUG. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two major studies published today in The New England Journal of Medicine can help doctors better identify pregnant women at risk for preterm delivery who can benefit from progesterone treatment, the March of Dimes Foundation said today. In...MedImmune Funds Study to Help Gain Insights Into Full Burden of RSV Disease Among Premature Infants
... burden of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) among preterm infants 32-to-35 weeks gestational age (GA) in out...year observational study will look to identify the preterm infants that may be most susceptible to serious RS... gathering insight into what risk factors may make preterm infants most susceptible to RSV infection and to s...Orthopaedic Injury: High Risk to Pregnant Women
...- Pregnant women who experience orthopaedic trauma may minimize the risk of preterm birth and other prenatal complications if they receive care at a medical ce... at greater risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes, including: preterm birth placental abruption poor infant condition at birth ...Preterm Births Rise 36 Percent Since Early 1980s
... Late preterm Infants Drive the Increase WHITE PLAINS, N.Y....rm that the decades-long rise in the United States preterm birth rate continues, putting more infants than ev...l Statistics Reports; Vol. 57, No. 7. The nation's preterm birth rate (birth before 37 completed weeks gestat...Brain malformations significantly associated with preterm birth, Wake Forest research shows
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. New research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine provides for the first time a solid scientific answer for the long-standing question of whether there is an association between preterm birth and brain malformations. In a study of more than 1,000 preterm infant...HPV vaccine may prevent preterm births
Chronic human papilloma virus (HPV)-infections can lead to cellular changes in the cervix that can be a pre-stage to cervical cancer. Surgical treatment of these pre-stages gives an increased risk of preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies. As the HPV-vaccine can prevent pre-stages of cervical can...March of Dimes provides $2.7 million in new funding for preterm birth research
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., FEB. 11, 2009 Scientists intend to identify microbes that may cause preterm labor in some women, investigate the role of an enzyme in preventing uterine contractions and an early birth, and look at different groups of women to find genetic and environmental risk factors for pr...Effectiveness of progesterone in reducing preterm births may be altered by genetic predisposition
SAN DIEGO, CA, JAN. 30, 2009 New research that may explain why taking progesterone to prevent preterm birth is only effective for some women was unveiled today at the 29th Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) meeting The Pregnancy Meeting. The drug, 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone c...Uncultured bacteria found in amniotic fluids of women who experience preterm births
CLEVELANDResearchers from Case Western Reserve University and Yale University have made a significant advancement in understanding the cause behind why some pregnant women suffer from inflammations in the inner womb without any signs of an infection. Using gene-cloning techniques, researchers d...Depression during pregnancy can double risk of preterm delivery
October 23, 2008 (Oakland, Calif.) - Depressed pregnant women have twice the risk of preterm delivery than pregnant women with no symptoms of depression, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. The study is published online in the Oxford University Press's journal ...Common treatment to delay labor decreases preterm infants' risk for cerebral palsy
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Intravenous magnesium sulfate supplementation before preterm delivery cuts the risk for handicapping cerebral palsy in half, according to research led by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) obstetrician Dwight Rouse, M.D., and published in the Aug. 28 issue of The New En...Analysis of millions of US births shows association between birth defects and preterm birth
MAY 21, 2008, WHITE PLAINS, NY Babies born preterm were more than twice as likely to have major birth defects as full-term infants, according to a new analysis of nearly 7 million U.S. live births published online this week in the Springer journal Maternal and Child Health Journal. Preterm bi...Risk of common vaginal infection linked to preterm birth appears higher for blacks
BOSTON, Aug. 11 Risk of a common vaginal infection linked to preterm birth appears to escalate when even one partner is African-American, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study presented today at the 34th annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics a...3-D ultrasound identifies women at risk for impending preterm birth
To help physicians non-invasively identify women at risk for preterm birth, 3-D ultrasound was used to measure the size of fetal adrenal glands, according to an abstract presented by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Conference February 8 in San Francisc...Hologic, Inc. to Host Investor Reception at the RSNA Trade Show
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