Preterm Births

In Chicago, where hundreds of thousands of households still get water from lead pipes, nearly 70% of young children have been exposed to lead-contaminated water, according to study findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Current data support naltrexone use as medication for opioid use disorder in pregnancy, with encouraging perinatal outcomes, according to a systematic review published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Exposure to phthalates may have contributed to 56,595 preterm births, resulting in an additional $3.84 billion in health care costs in the U.S. during 2018, according to study data.

Exposure to phthalates may have contributed to 56,595 preterm births, resulting in an additional $3.84 billion in health care costs in the U.S. during 2018, according to study data.

COVID-19 caused a surge in premature births in California that “fully disappeared” by 2022, likely because of vaccines, researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.