Tag: preterm birth

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    Pregnant women encouraged to eat cold-water fish

    Pregnant women with the lowest plasma levels of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids — the kind found in fish oil — were at 10 times increased risk of early preterm birth as pregnant women with the highest levels.

    3–5 minutes
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    Discovering predictor for fatal infection in preterm babies

    Katherine Gregory, a nurse scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, searched for an answer to the mystery of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a sometimes fatal infectious disease of the newborn gut affecting preterm infants.

    2–3 minutes