The share of babies being born prematurely in the U.S. is on the rise. A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the preterm birth rate went up 12 percent ...

Approximately 10 percent, or 400,000 babies, are born preterm in the U.S., missing out on the growth and development that occurs in the final weeks of pregnancy. While the national preterm birth rate ...

The rate of preterm births in the United States has been rising, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, potentially ...

Each year, more than one in 10 babies worldwide are born prematurely, a new report finds. The report ranks the United States No. 131 in the world in terms of its preterm birth rate, ranking behind ...

Why are babies born prematurely? Researchers still don’t really know. Obstetricians are very good at managing the process of birth. But when it comes to predicting whether a baby will be born in a ...

Jeffrey M. Denney, University of Utah, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Department of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Jennifer F. Culhane and Robert L. Goldenberg, Drexel ...

The CDC examined the effects of maternal age on the decline of preterm birth in the United States between 2007 and 2014. Rates of preterm births and births in teenagers have decreased in the United ...