Pregnancy at age 40 and beyond is an independent risk factor for intrauterine fetal demise or stillbirth, according to an abstract presented by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Conference February 10 in San Francisco.
African American mothers were found to deliver prematurely at 20-34 weeks and more to deliver extremely prematurely at 20-28 weeks. Full term births occur at 37-41 weeks gestation.
Abnormal proteins in amniotic fluid that signal a higher risk of delivering prematurely are being detected with increasing accuracy by Yale School of Medicine researchers who presented their work in two abstracts at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Conference February 8 in San Francisco.
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 Francisco.
Northwestern University study indicates that getting inadequate sleep has negative effects on children’s social and emotional well-being and school performance and also increases their risk of being overweight.
Purdue University students will create complex machines to put the squeeze on oranges as they seek new ways to make juice during the regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.
The February 2007 issue of the American Sociological Review (ASR), the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association (ASA), features new research on adoptive and biological parents, comparing child-rearing factors between parents who adopt versus biological parents.
There is an increased risk of fetal heart problems when mothers carry particular antibodies associated with rheumatic diseases, according to an abstract presented by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Conference February 9 in San Francisco.
Majority of doctors “reported objections to abortion for failed contraception” and see the value in explaining their own moral convictions to patients, revealed by a New England Journal of Medicine article — Religion, Conscience, and Controversial Clinical Practices.
African-American women are three times more likely to deliver babies three to 17 weeks prematurely than Caucasian women, according to a review of Missouri birth statistics by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.