Nearly 50,000 preterm births may have been averted across a group of mostly high-income countries in one month alone. By Elizabeth Preston Elizabeth Decker had a stressful second pregnancy, plagued by ...

Overall, 9.4% of children were premature. Rates of hospitalizations within the first 5 years were higher for those of lower gestational ages, with the most pronounced effect seen in children born at ...

“I’m a scientist; I don’t like using the word ‘magical.’ But it was kind of magical.” MEGHAN AZAD, on how one of her Twitter posts in 2020 set off a huge international research effort that found that ...