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We appreciate Dr Jovanovski’s interest in our paper. We performed the first randomized controlled trial of nulliparous women with singleton gestations who reached the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists definition…

The safe balancing of maternal and neonatal benefits and risks in the second stage of labor has been hindered by a lack of high-quality, prospective evidence. Gimovsky and Berghella recently…

Our recently published validation study was similar in design to prior studies evaluating the performance of noninvasive prenatal testing in that we analyzed a clinical cohort of maternal plasma samples…

Recently Lefkowitz et al (Sequenom Laboratories, San Diego, CA) reported a validation study of fetal/placental copy number variants by sequencing the cell-free DNA of maternal plasma. The clinical sensitivity was 97.7%…

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been linked to such environmental factors as maternal smoking, infections, drug abuse, and air pollution. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are an emerging contributor to this…

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are defined as exogenous chemicals or mixtures of chemicals that are able to interfere with the endocrine system, mimicking or antagonizing the hormonal activity. They can…