22 February 2024

Breakthrough medical development could reduce premature births

Breakthrough medical development could significantly reduce number of pregnant women having unnecessary or ineffective surgery to prevent premature births Task...

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1 September 2021

Premature birth could be predicted as early as 10 weeks pregnant by testing chemicals and bacteria in the vagina

Mothers at risk of premature birth could be identified far sooner in pregnancy than current tests allow by looking for...

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10 August 2020

Simple swab to tell which twins are really at risk of premature birth

A test developed by teams from Tommy’s London Research Centre can help predict whether twins will be born prematurely, a newly published study...

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15 July 2020

Traditional vegetable diet lowers the risk of premature babies

It turns out we should follow our parent's advice when we're thinking about becoming parents ourselves, with a study finding...

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4 March 2020

Length of pregnancy alters the child’s DNA

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have, together with an international team, mapped the relationship between length of pregnancy and...

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