preterm birth

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The first thing Dr. Marta Valcarcel notices on a walk through a nursery full of tiny, heavily bandaged babies is the empty incubator in the corner....

Preterm birth complicated by chorioamnionitis may modestly increase a child's risk of later asthma, researchers found.

(March of Dimes Foundation) The nation’s leading maternal-child and quality assurance health care experts will review and develop programs to help lower the nation’s costly preterm birth rate during a Quality Improvement Symposium, Oct. 8-9 in Arlington, Va.

Attendees will review existing programs that successfully lower cesarean section and induction rates and improve care and services for pregnant women and babies.