Guidelines from ACOG warns that prolonged use might potentially increase maternal-fetal risk without offering a clear benefit. What steps can you take to handle preterm labor? Don't overreact.

Hospitals in Scotland should create a “trigger list” to identify symptoms that might indicate preterm labour, a judge has recommended after the deaths of three newborn babies.1 A fatal accident ...

Currently, there are no nursing assessment standards of care guidelines that provide focus to feeding intolerance symptoms. Nutritional management of very-low-birth-weight preterm infants varies ...

The guidelines will be reviewed in five years and updated with any additional evidence-based recommendations. Professor John Newnham, chair of the Australian Preterm Birth Prevention Alliance says ...

Researchers have found that while the tocolytic drug atosiban prolonged labor in cases of threatened preterm birth beyond 30 weeks, it did not improve neonatal outcomes compared to a placebo.

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A SYSTEMATIC review of 42 randomised trials involving 148,866 participants has demonstrated that digital health interventions (DHIs) significantly reduce excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) and ...

Premature or pre term birth is when a baby is born too early, i.e before 37th week of pregnancy. The incidence of preterm birth is 4-6% of babies born across countries. Read on to know all about ...