The Number Of Premature Births Increases

The Number Of Premature Births Increases.
Pregnant women who select to have an betimes delivery put themselves and their babies at increased risk for complications, researchers warn in Dec 2013. A full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks, while an early-term pregnancy is 37 weeks to 38 weeks and six days. In about 10 percent to 15 percent of all deliveries in the United States performed before 39 weeks, there is no angelic medical insight for the original delivery, according to the researchers.

Illness and cessation rates "have increased in mothers and their babies that are born in the early-term period compared to babies born at 39 weeks or later. There is a emergency to improve awareness about the risks associated with this," Dr Jani Jensen, a Mayo Clinic obstetrician and leading father of a review article on the topic, said in a Mayo news release. For newborns, the increased risks of elective pioneer delivery include breathing problems, feeding difficulties and conditions such as cerebral palsy, according to the tidings release.

New Method Of Treatment Glaucoma

New Method Of Treatment Glaucoma.
Contact lenses that transport glaucoma medication over hanker periods are getting closer to reality, say researchers working with laboratory animals. In their study, the lenses delivered the glaucoma soporific latanoprost (brand name Xalatan) continuously to animals for a month. It's hoped that some heyday such lenses will replace eye drops now worn to treat the eye disease, the researchers said Dec 2013.