Pre-term pregnancies can happen to any woman and in 50 percent of cases, we don't know why. |
Since we don't know the causes, we're putting money into studying the biological mechanisms that trigger it. Pre-term pregnancy is a complex disorder, unlike polio where we identified the virus, developed a vaccine and administered it, it's not that simple for pre-term pregnancies. There's so many confounding factors. |
The families are the ones who can tell the stories of how they've been affected by this problem. Encouraging them to create family teams for someone alive or who has passed away raises money for research that may someday give them answers. |