In 2009 a landmark study found that nearly 20% of US Medicare beneficiaries were readmitted to hospital within 30 days, prompting hospital readmissions to become a major focus of health care quality... Read More

Early miscarriage has been reported to occur in 17% to 31% of pregnancies,[1,2] and is defined as a nonviable intrauterine pregnancy with either an empty gestational sac or a gestational sac... Read More

It is well known that women with type 1 or type 2 pregestational diabetes have an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. One study comparing the offspring of women in the general population... Read More

The evolution of prenatal screening was slow until relatively recently. In 1866 John Langdon Down published the first reference to a cluster of fetal characteristics that were discovered to be... Read More

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a prevalent reproductive and metabolic disorder with variable phenotypes and an underlying pathophysiology that is still not completely understood. While the... Read More