Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association

This state-of-the art manuscript highlights our current understanding of maternal immunization-the practice of vaccinating pregnant women to confer protection on them as well as on their young infants, and thereby reduce vaccine-preventable…

Racial disparities in pregnancy outcome in the United States are significant, persistent and costly, but the causes are poorly understood. We propose that disproportionate exposure of African-American women to environmental endocrine disrup…

Six hundred ninety-eight patients with premature rupture of the membranes between 26 and 34 weeks were managed expectantly without the use of tocolytics or corticosteroids. Of these, 92 (13 per cent) developed chorioamnionitis. Although lat…