Premature Births CBS News, NY - Nov 13, 2008 While no one is sure why premature births happen, doctors have pinpointed one thing that can play a role: infections. "If you have a bacterial infection ...
Helping Out for Nov. 26, 2008 Charleston Regional Business, SC - Nov 26, 2008 South Carolina?s premature birth rate is currently at 15.6%, more than twice the 2010 goal of 7.6%. Select Health is continuing to partner with March of ...
Weight Loss Surgery Helps Obese Women Have Healthier Babies New York Times, United States - Nov 19, 2008 Their babies are also healthier and may be less likely to be born prematurely or to be very small, the authors found. ?Intuitively, it makes sense to me ...
Study links poor, obesity Denver Daily News, CO - Nov 12, 2008 Colorado lags behind in preventing premature birth and urgently needs to take action to prevent more deaths and disabilities. In the first of what will be ...
Miracle baby Victoria Advocate, TX - Nov 15, 2008 For many families, the cost of keeping their premature babies in intensive care for an extended period of time is very burdensome, Jaynes said. ...
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Early births, low weight are challenges for state Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Louisville also rated poorly compared with other large cities: The city's premature birth rate was 16.1 percent, and 9.9 percent of babies had a low birth...
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Premature births could be prevented by a hormone therapy for pregnant women, researchers have claimed.
Treating women with the female hormone progesterone could reduce their chances of giving birth too soon, recent research has suggested.
Now a new study will attempt to find out in far more detail why labour starts early and how progesterone could prevent this happening.
The Action Medical Research charity is giving a team of scientists in Glasgow £94,000 to carry out the research.
Prof Jane Norman, who will lead the project, said: "We're going to be studying mothers at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and the increase in knowledge that this will give us could help in developing new therapies to save lives.
"In normal labour, white blood cells are activated in the bloodstream and migrate to the womb during the birthing process.
Sometimes this can happen too soon and we believe that these cells might play a key role in triggering pre-term labour.
"If this is the case then progesterone could stop this from happening by blocking the activation of white blood cells."
Progesterone is made in the ovaries and produced by the placenta in large quantities during pregnancy, she added.
Andrew Proctor, from Action Medical Research, said: "Doctors tell us they are close to cures for prematurity but their only barrier is funding. So our supporters are doing everything they can to raise money to help them." About 50,000 babies are born too soon every year in Britain, and can die or suffer life-long difficulties such as blindness, deafness and cerebral palsy. But, until now, little has been known about why some women go into labour early.
