WAPM-Newsletter No 1/2007 8^th WORLD CONGRESS OF PERINATAL MEDICINE in Florence, Italy, September 9–13, 2007

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1. WAPM-Newsletter No 1/2007 8^th WORLD CONGRESS OF PERINATAL MEDICINE in Florence, Italy, September 9–13, 2007
2. Poverty and perinatal health
3. Maternal mortality in Africa
4. Lessons learned from four advanced abdominal pregnancies at an East African Health Center
5. Incidence and correlates of cesarean section in a capital city of a middle-income country
6. Metabolic changes, hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and oxidative stress after short-term starvation in healthy pregnant women
7. Does maternal docosahexaenoic acid supplementation during pregnancy and lactation lower BMI in late infancy?
8. Feasibility of a randomized controlled trial testing nifedipine vs. placebo for the treatment of preterm labor
9. Atosiban versus usual care for the management of preterm labor
10. Umbilical cord blood collection: do patients really understand?
11. Comparison between singleton- and triplet-specific “growth” curves to detect growth restricted triplet infants
12. Role of visfatin, insulin-like growth factor-I and insulin in fetal growth
13. Dynamic QT/RR relationship of cardiac conduction in premature infants treated with low-dose doxapram hydrochloride
14. Risk factors and outcomes for ventilator-associated pneumonia in neonatal intensive care unit patients
15. Neonatal outcomes in triplet pregnancies: assisted reproduction versus spontaneous conception
16. Sequela of preterm versus term infants born to mothers on a methadone maintenance program: differential course of neonatal abstinence syndrome
17. Vacuum extraction and autonomic balance in human infants
18. Accuracy of second trimester fetal head circumference and biparietal diameter for predicting the time of spontaneous birth
19. Reply
20. Induction of labor with oral misoprostol for premature rupture of membranes at term in women with unfavorable cervix
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22. In memoriam: Prof. Shouichi Sakamoto
23. Congress Calendar