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Central Hillsborough Healthy Start offers a model of community care that helps to prevent premature births.
Understanding the prevalence and factors associated with preterm births is critical for effective interventions.
Advances in research and medicine have given doctors helpful tools to assess a person’s individual risk and to help prepare them for pregnancy.
Preterm babies born after 28 weeks can often survive with relatively simple medical care. Here is how.
The complex and fascinating community of ‘bugs’ that live in the vagina have just been linked to a groundbreaking new test to identify the risk of preterm birth.
An investigation showed that five Canadian cities had lead levels in their water on par with those in Flint, Mich. during its peak period of water contamination.
Women often express a fear of giving birth en route to the hospital, and these fears have some basis.
In developed countries, the main causes of preterm deaths are well known and studied.But in low resource countries, the causes are much less understood.
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Post-doctoral Fellow in the School of Medicine, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Paediatrics, Addis Ababa University
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Ph.D. Candidate, George Mason University
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Professor of Health Services Criminology, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
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Professor and Principal Chairholder, NSERC Industrial Chair on Drinking Water, Polytechnique Montréal
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Professor of Children's Environmental Health, Simon Fraser University
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Researcher, Midwife, Nurse, UNSW Microbiome Research Centre, UNSW
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Professor of Obstetrics at King’s College London and chair of the FIGO Preterm Birth Committee (2012-23)., King's College London
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Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
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Clinical Research Fellow, King's College London
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Associate Professor, Gynaecological Surgeon and Sonologist, McMaster University; Adelaide University
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Associate Professor of Rheumatology, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Research Assistant Professor of Maternal and Child Health, Texas A&M University
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Senior lecturer, York St John University