1.   Furthermore, these risks go up for women who have a history of premature deliveries, the researchers said.

2.   Identifying the risk of a premature delivery can help reduce costs and infant deaths, the companies said.

3.   Identifying the risk of a premature delivery can help reduce health care costs and infant deaths, the companies said.

4.   In smaller studies, giving the sedative drug phenobarbital to pregnant women at risk of premature delivery appeared to have reduced the incidence of brain bleeding in their newborns.

5.   Many experts now conclude that stress causes release of hormones that weaken the uterus, leading to premature delivery or mortality.

6.   Moving up the expected delivery date of multiple-fetus pregnancies, the researchers said, could alleviate considerable anxiety among mothers concerned about premature delivery.

7.   Some specialists suspect that sexual activity may in fact spark premature delivery.

8.   The FDA had already approved the fetal fibronectin immunoassay test for women who shown signs of premature delivery.

9.   The goal of monitoring is to avoid premature delivery, a leading cause of disability and death in newborns.

10.   The marked difference was independent of the medical reason for premature delivery.