INTRODUCTION To determine the relationship between bacterial vaginosis and preterm labour. METHOD In this study 160 labouring women admitted in Bahonar Hospital were studied for the presence of bacterial vaginosis based on the presence of clue cells. Control group consisted of 80 women with the gestational age of more than 38 weeks and the case group consisted of 80 women with the gestational...

The data described in this article is the subject of an article in the American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology, titled "The Human Uterine Smooth Muscle S-nitrosoproteome Fingerprint in Pregnancy, Labor, and Preterm Labor" (doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00198.2013) (Ulrich et al., 2013) [1]. The data described is a large scale mass spectrometry data set that defines the human uterine smooth muscle...

BACKGROUND Both active smoking and environmental tobacco smoke exposure are associated with pregnancy complications. In March 2006, Scotland implemented legislation prohibiting smoking in all wholly or partially enclosed public spaces. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of this legislation on preterm delivery and small for gestational age. METHODS AND FINDINGS We conducted logi...

Preterm labour continues to be a major contributor to neonatal and infant morbidity. Recent data from the USA indicate that the number of preterm deliveries (including those associated with preterm labour) has risen in the last 20 years by 30%. This increase is despite considerable efforts to introduce new therapies for the prevention and treatment of preterm labour and highlights the need to a...

This study details a programme which emphasized nursing interventions for women at high risk for preterm birth. Preterm birth continues to be a major health problem, with ongoing research being conducted both in the United States and internationally in an effort to find causative factors. Programmes designed to prevent preterm birth have been described often in the literature, with lifestyle fa...

QUESTION How should I advise the increasing number of my pregnant patients who need to fly as part of their jobs? ANSWER Overall, existing data do not confirm increased reproductive risks for otherwise healthy pregnant women traveling by air. Pregnant women with specific medical conditions that might be exacerbated by a hypoxic environment, such as respiratory and cardiac diseases, should avo...

OBJECTIVE To introduce new information on the use of progesterone to prevent premature labour and to provide guidance to obstetrical caregivers who counsel women on the merits of this choice OPTIONS This discussion is limited to progesterone therapy for prevention of preterm labour (PTL) in women at increased risk of PTL. EVIDENCE A search of both Medline and the Cochrane Library identified...

Historical and archaeological studies of Australian convictism have embraced a variety of themes and directions, from exploration of the ideologies and mechanisms of punishment and reform (e.g. Kerr 1984, 1988), to investigations of convicts as part of broader colonizing strategies and a means of creating industrial workforces (e.g. Blair and Claoué-Long 1993). It is increasingly apparent that ...

OBJECTIVE To compare a new loading dose regimen for intravenous ritodrine administration in preterm labour with the conventional dose regimen. DESIGN Multicentre randomised trial using numbered opaque sealed envelopes. SETTING Five teaching hospitals in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS Women (n = 203) in preterm labour at less than 34 weeks of gestation. INTERVENTIONS Women received either...

At present, almost all mountain tunnels in Japan are excavated and constructed utilizing the New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM), which was advocated by Prof. Rabcewicz of Austria in 1964. In Japan, this method has been applied to tunnel construction since around 1978, after which there has been a subsequent decrease in the number of casualties during tunnel construction. However, there is sti...