Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Topical progesterone creams have been touted as a "natural" alternative to hormone replacement therapy and have been widely advertised in women's magazines and over the ...

Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy can be a sign of an impending miscarriage. Doctors sometimes prescribe progesterone, a hormone essential to a healthy pregnancy, to prevent miscarriage. New research ...

Women with a short cervix treated with a cervical pessary for the prevention of early preterm birth are equally as likely as those treated with vaginal progesterone to give birth before 34 weeks of ...

(Reuters Health) - Giving progesterone to women with bleeding early in pregnancy doesn't prevent pregnancy loss, except among women who have had a previous miscarriage, according to a study of 4,153 ...

Progesterone is essential for the maintenance of pregnancy. However, whether progesterone supplementation in the first trimester of pregnancy would increase the rate of live births among women with a ...

Researchers at the University of Birmingham and Tommy's National Centre for Miscarriage Research say giving progesterone to women with early pregnancy bleeding and a history of miscarriage could lead ...

A new study has shown that taking progesterone supplements during the first trimester of pregnancy does not improve the chances of maintaining pregnancy among women who have a history of unexplained ...

pregnancy miscarriage full term birth Women with a history of unexplained, recurrent miscarriages do not benefit from taking progesterone supplements, new research shows. Progesterone supplements ...

A University of Manchester study reveals a drug approved for use in other conditions could be repurposed as a preventive ...

A major study of around 260,000 women shows that taking the progesterone-only contraceptive pill can increase asthma attacks in some women. The research, published in ERJ Open Research, shows an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among women with infertility, those using progesterone may have a higher risk for developing thyroid cancer ...