Students design early labour detector to prevent premature births

Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 06:21 in Health & Medicine

The birth of a baby is usually a joyous event, but when a child is born too early, worrisome complications can occur, including serious health problems for the baby and steep medical bills for the family. To address this, Johns Hopkins graduate students and their faculty adviser have invented a new system to pick up very early signs that a woman is going into labour too soon...

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