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RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS
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Good News for Mothers-To-Be Coming from Detroit |
"Hugely Significant" Breakthrough will Prevent Premature Birth in Millions of Women Each Year
For years, Detroit has been known to have a high rate of premature birth and infant mortality. To address these important problems, Dr. Roberto Romero and Dr. Sonia Hassan, along with a team of brilliant researchers, conducted a groundbreaking study as part of the Perinatology Research Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health on the campus of the Detroit Medical Center at DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital and Wayne State University.
International Study Shows the Effectiveness and Safety of Vaginal Progesterone in Preventing Premature Birth
A team of investigators of the National Institutes of Health housed at the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) and Wayne State University (WSU) published today that performing a cervical ultrasound in all pregnant women and treating those with a short cervix with vaginal progesterone reduces the rate of preterm birth and neonatal complications. The study is based on the analysis of all randomized clinical trials of vaginal progesterone conducted worldwide.