If preterm labor is a possibility, these shots can help protect your baby's lungs and improve outcomes. Here's when they're ...

Progesterone helps regulate the menstrual cycle and supports a healthy pregnancy. Progesterone levels can be measured with a blood test to track ovulation or diagnose fertility issues. Synthetic ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as ...

Virginia’s South Side maternal health care desert is about to get a little drier. Centra Southside Community Hospital plans to discontinue its labor and delivery services mid-December as part of a ...

Labor occurring before 37 weeks of gestation (as determined from the first day of the last menstrual period or by ultrasound estimation of fetal age) is called premature labor. Regular uterine ...

It’s her labor of love. A North Carolina woman showered with love and support by an army of Big Apple moms after she went into extremely premature labor during a business trip to NYC paid the kindness ...

In honor of Women’s Health Month, reproductive health researcher and Assistant Professor Scott Barnett from the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology shares the sobering reality of the rising ...

Traditionally, obstetrics has operated from a reactive standpoint—intervening only after symptoms arise. But Dr. Bruno is helping to flip that approach on its head. “Too often in women’s health, we ...

The contraction inhibitor atosiban (Tractocile) was no better than placebo for neonatal outcomes in the context of threatened preterm birth, the investigators in the multicenter, randomized, ...

Labor Day 2012 has come and gone, underscoring just how much the day has lost its connection to workers' rights. While political stump speeches mouthed obligatory praise for workers, there was little ...