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Alarming gaps in gestational diabetes care

Despite a widespread focus on the need to prevent prediabetes from becoming type 2 diabetes, women in the United States who have been diagnosed...

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The importance of studying the placenta

The placenta has been extraordinarily poorly understood. Much of medicine has regarded the placenta like the appendix – an organ that may be...

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Why placental shape and vasculature matter

Do not throw away the placenta, and do not just weigh it. Take a photograph, because even with a photograph we can assess vascular density, disk...

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Obstetrics Moonshots: 50 years of discoveries

Our specialty has advanced through a series of moonshots that have been inspired and driven by technological advancement and by our continually...

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Zika virus challenges ob.gyn. practice

Rarely do we in the Unites States consider a gravida’s vulnerability to tropical infectious diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, and now Zika...

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