Braxton-Hicks contractions, or false labor pains, can start weeks or months before actual labor. They occur as your uterine muscles prepare for delivery. But while these contractions are ...

ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday conceded contraction in two of the three major real economic sectors — agriculture and industry — signalling slower than targeted economic growth but said ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Workers pack dumplings at a production line at a food factory in Suqian city in east China’s Jiangsu ...

The official purchasing managers' index (PMI) contracted to 49.1 in January from 50.1 in December, below the 50-mark separating growth from contraction and missing a median forecast of 50.1 in a ...

An increased burden of premature atrial contractions (PACs) has long been considered a benign phenomenon. However, strong evidence of their involvement in the occurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF), ...

Contraction joints (sometimes called control joints) are used in unreinforced and lightly reinforced slabs-on-ground to minimize random cracking. By creating straight-line weakened-planes in ...