Gel may help prevent birth problems Preterm births, neonatal complications and health care costs are dramatically reduced when women with short cervixes are given a progesterone gel, according to a study announced Wednesday by Wayne State University researchers. The strategy can help annually prevent 45,000 preterm births and cut health care costs by $500 million, said Dr. Roberto Romero, the study's principal investigator and chief of the Perinatology Research Branch of the National Institutes of Health, hosted by Wayne State University at Hutzel Women's Hospital.

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