Individuals born preterm or with low birth weight had a lower IQ and struggled more with subjects such as reading and math in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Half of intraventricular hemorrhages occurred within the first 48 hours of life after 2007, compared with 82% ...

A new study from NYU Langone Health partially attributed close to 2 million preterm births in 2018 — about 8% of the world’s ...

The stress preterm infants experience at birth can carry on throughout a lifetime and cause negative health impacts later in life, necessitating the routine inclusion of birth history in medical ...

Preterm birth has lasting effects into adulthood, with very premature individuals struggling to form romantic relationships and having fewer children, according to the Bavarian Longitudinal Study.

Preterm birth is a major cause of neonatal illness and death, especially among women with a history of premature delivery.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. According to a new study from researchers at Wake Forest ...

A typical human pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, but most parents know this number is only a rough estimate. Babies are born on a seemingly unpredictable timeline, with a normal pregnancy ranging from 38 to ...

Exposure to a chemical commonly used to make plastic more flexible may have contributed to about 1.97 million preterm births ...