MEDICINAL PRODUCT, USE OF A PROGESTERONE, DRUG RELEASE DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR INSERTION IN THE VAGINA, AND METHODS FOR TREATING OR PREVENTING THE PREMATURE BIRTH WORK AND BIRTH AND IMPROVING MORBILITY AND MORBILITY A PREMATURE NEONATE

摘要

A method for treating or preventing spontaneous preterm birth in pregnant women and improving neonatal morbidity and mortality. The method includes administering to a pregnant woman in need thereof an effective amount of progesterone sufficient to prolong gestation by minimizing the shortening or effacing of her cervix. Treatment and prophylaxis with progesterone in pregnant women having symptoms of short cervix has been clinically shown to increase neonatal health.