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Anthony G B Walters and colleagues assess cardiovascular outcomes fifty years after antenatal exposure to betamethasone, in long-term follow-up of a randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Lise Christine Gaudernack and team assess the effect of hyoscine butylbromide on the duration of labor in nulliparous women showing early signs of slow labor.

In this Swedish register-based cohort study, Shuyun Chen, Viktor H. Ahlqvist and colleagues assess the association between maternal intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders in children exposed during gestation.

In this pre-specified secondary analysis of the NiPPeR double-blind randomized controlled trial, Keith M Godfrey and colleagues investigate maternal B-vitamin and vitamin D status before, during and after pregnancy, and the influence of supplementation preconception and during pregnancy

In a Norwegian cohort study, Dr Gizachew Tessema and colleagues investigate the association between interpregnancy interval and adverse pregnancy outcomes, among pregnancies following miscarriages or induced abortions.

Giulia Muraca and colleagues examine differences in the rates of cesarean delivery between British Columbia, Canada and Sweden over time using the Robson classification with and without adjusting for maternal, fetal/infant, and obstetric practice factors.

Giulia Muraca and colleagues examine differences in the rates of cesarean delivery between British Columbia, Canada and Sweden over time using the Robson classification with and without adjusting for maternal, fetal/infant, and obstetric practice factors.

In a nationwide cohort study, Ipek Gurol-Urganci and colleagues study obstetric intervention rates and pregnancy outcomes in England during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the coming days, families will gather on high school athletic fields across the Pioneer Valley to celebrate graduating seniors, many of whom just recently returned to in-person learning after more than a year of taking remote classes because of the coronavirus pandemic. “I feel incredibly blessed to be able to have a somewhat normal end to a year that was anything but,” said Julia Calderon, ...

Induction of labour may be necessary when pregnancies reach 41 weeks of gestation. Ripening methods include mechanical and pharmacological options and both are currently used in pregnancies that reach 41 weeks of gestation. Mechanical cervical ripening leads to less uterine tachysystole and less fetal heart rate anomalies than pharmacological methods. Whether mechanical methods are associated with reduced perinatal morbidity in prolonged pregnancies in comparison with pharmacological methods ne...