Preeclampsia is a serious hypertensive disorder that affects roughly 2 per cent to 8 per cent of pregnant women worldwide. Now, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved a blood test that can help predict Preeclampsia earlier in pregnant women. The new test works by detecting sFlt1 and PIGF-- two proteins in the blood that predict poor outcomes from …
Studies have claimed that, with the rise in temperature, the cases of preterm delivery have increased. Heat and preterm labour Long span research was conducted by Alan Barreca, an associate professor at UCLA’s Institute of Environmental Sustainability, and economist Jessamyn Schaller of Claremont McKenna College in a two-decade window, i.e., from 1969 to 1988, to find out the link between …
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