Fifty-seven percent of pregnancies among 15-19-year-olds ended in birth in 2002, compared with 64% among all women.






Topic: Preterm

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  • Lack Of Well-Being In A Pregnant Woman May Lead To Premature Delivery
    posted on 11/19/07 by
    What is the role of psychological well-being in premature delivery? In a new study, cases of premature delivery the new mothers were less educated than controls, showed a lower acceptance of pregnancy and worse relationship with others, namely with the husband, compared to controls.

  • Lack Of Well Being In A Pregnant Woman May Lead To Premature Delivery
    posted on 11/17/07 by
    A group of researchers of the University of Modena has investigated the role of psychological well being in premature delivery. The study is reported in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.The aim of this study was to evaluate how sociodemographic factors, psychosocial adaptation to pregnancy and well-being levels are associated with the onset of preterm uterine contractions allowing symptomatic preterm labor. [click link for full article]

  • Lack Of Well Being In A Pregnant Woman May Lead To Premature Delivery (Medical News Today)
    posted on 11/17/07 by
    A group of researchers of the University of Modena has investigated the role of psychological well being in premature delivery. The study is reported in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.The aim of this study was to evaluate how sociodemographic factors, psychosocial adaptation to pregnancy and well-being levels are associated with the onset of preterm uterine contractions allowing symptomatic preterm labor. [click link for full article]

  • Working to Reduce 'Preemie' Birth Rate ; With the Number Rising in Maine, Mothers Are Urged to Get Prenatal Care so Babies Are Born Full-Term. (Red Orbit )
    posted on 11/14/07 by
    By JOSIE HUANG Staff Writer -- The contractions, so tiny that they were imperceptible, showed up on an ultrasound just five months into Wendy Napolitano's pregnancy with triplets.

  • Even Slightly Premature Babies Are At Higher Risk Of Death In First Week Of Life
    posted on 11/13/07 by
    Babies born just a few weeks premature are six times more likely to die during their first week of life, than full-term babies, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Pediatrics. [click link for full article]

  • Even Slightly Premature Babies Are At Higher Risk Of Death In First Week Of Life
    posted on 11/13/07 by
    "This study adds to our growing knowledge of the increased medical complications and higher risk of infant death among late preterm infants compared with babies born full term" Main Category: Pediatrics / Children's Health News Article Date: 13 Nov 2007 - 2:00 PST newsletters Babies born just a few weeks premature are six times more likely to die during their first week of life, than ...

  • Caffeine Therapy Boosts Preemies' Outcomes
    posted on 11/08/07 by
    Title: Caffeine Therapy Boosts Preemies' OutcomesCategory: Health NewsCreated: 11/8/2007 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 11/8/2007

  • Synchrotron Radiation Illuminates How Babies' Protective Bubble Bursts
    posted on 11/06/07 by
    Researchers at the University of Reading, School of Pharmacy have developed an important new technique to study one of the most common causes of premature birth and prenatal mortality. The findings are published in the November 7 issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. [click link for full article]

  • Babies May Be Harmed By Common Drug For Stopping Preterm Labor
    posted on 11/02/07 by
    A drug commonly used to halt premature labor may be associated with brain damage and intestinal issues in premature babies, according to a new analysis of studies on the issue published in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.When a woman goes into labor early, obstetricians are faced with the possibility of delivering a baby who is not ready to breathe air on its own. [click link for full article]

  • In-Womb Life-Saving Surgery In Premature Rupture Of Fetal Membrane
    posted on 10/30/07 by
    When the bag of waters burst in the 20th week of pregnancy, the unborn child only had a very slim chance of surviving birth. The high risk of infection was not the only risk to Miriam's life. Her lungs stopped growing, and as a result she would have most probably suffocated after birth. Doctors at Bonn University Clinic presumably saved Miriam's life with surgery in the womb that stimulated lung growth. [click link for full article]

  • Life-saving Surgery Performed In Womb In Premature Rupture Of Fetal Membrane
    posted on 10/28/07 by
    Doctors at Bonn University Clinic have saved a baby girl's life with surgery in the womb that stimulated lung growth. This was the first time that this method has been used worldwide in a case of premature rupture of the fetal membrane. The baby is now one year old and full of beans.

  • Plasma From Females May Not Be As Harmful As Once Thought
    posted on 10/22/07 by MedicineNet
    As the national blood banking community considers limiting the use plasma from female donors because of a rare but potentially catastrophic lung condition, researchers from Duke University Medical Center have shown that this policy change might be premature.In their analysis of 8,300 heart surgery patients, the researchers found no association between transfused female plasma and any adverse outcome. [click link for full article]

  • Early Deaths From Smoking Will Soon Double, Says Report
    posted on 10/23/07 by MedicineNet
    An internatoinal conference of health workers in Beijing heard that the current worldwide total of premature deaths caused by tobacco is set to double as developing countries reap the consequences of addiction. [click link for full article]

  • Premature Menopause - A Change Too Soon, UK
    posted on 10/18/07 by Medical News Today
    In Britain today some 120 000 women per year experience premature menopause, menopause before the age of 40. Psychologically, emotionally and physiologically the impact of the condition is immensely challenging for women and their families. The causes still remain largely enigmatic. In November, the Consumer's Forum of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) will hold a Public Meeting in London on premature menopause. [click link for full article]

  • Avoiding Premature Labor
    posted on 10/12/07 by About.com
    Women who are carrying multiples. Women who work overnight shifts. Women having their first baby. Women who have experienced it before. These are the women who have higher premature...

  • Maternal stress linked to low ny birthweights, preterm deliveries after 9/11
    posted on 10/08/07 by Medworm
    Researchers have found evidence of an increase in low birth weights among babies born in and around New York City in the weeks and months after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Writing in the journal Human Reproduction, they suggest that psychological stress may have contributed to the effect. Professor Brenda Eskenazi and colleagues studied data from birth certificates of 1,660,401 babies born in New York between January 1996 and December 2002. They divided the babies into those

  • Smokeless Nicotine Products Could Reduce The Colossal Health Burden Of Smoking
    posted on 10/19/07 by MedicineNet
    More studies should be carried out to decide whether it might be possible to swap smoking tobacco with medicinal nicotine and smokeless tobacco, and thus reduce the enormous burden of bad health and premature deaths that smoking causes, especially amongst the poor. You can read about this in a Viewpoint article published in The Lancet, this week's edition. [click link for full article]

  • The prevalence and clinical significance of intraamniotic infection with candida species in women with preterm labor
    posted on 10/05/07 by MedWorm
    Summary  Intraamniotic infection is considered a major etiologic factor of preterm birth. Positive amniotic fluid cultures are rarely
    contaminated with Candida species. The presence of this microorganism is associated with a poor pregnancy outcome. Out of
    773 transabdominal amniocenteses performed in women presenting with preterm labor and intact membranes, 77 patients (9.9%)
    had positive amniotic fluid cultures and in 5 women (6.5%) Candida species were identified. O

  • Vaginal progesterone gel may improve infant outcomes and reduce the rate of preterm birth in women with a short cervix in mid-pregnancy
    posted on 10/04/07 by MedWorm
    For the first time, data show a positive association between the use of vaginal progesterone and infants' overall health at birth. Babies born to women with high-risk pregnancies treated with PROCHIEVE(R) 8% (progesterone gel) appear to be less likely to need intensive care than babies born to mothers treated with placebo, Columbia Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBRX) announced today. The data are published in the October issue of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology (also known as The White J

  • Wales: Smoking Deaths Fall As Ban Hits Six Months
    posted on 10/03/07 by MedicineNet
    The lives of 200 non-smokers have been saved in the first six months of Wales' smoking ban. As the legal age limit for buying cigarettes rose from 16 to 18, Wales' chief medical officer, Dr Tony Jewell, said: "The ban will help to cut the number of deaths from secondhand smoke and more lives will be save thanks to the ban which came in on April 2." He added, "Every year an estimated 400 premature deaths of non-smokers will be averted by the ban. [click link for full article]

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