“The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” Thomas Huxley Reverberating through the internet is an article by a group of scientists theorizing that cesarean availability has altered the course of human evolution, resulting in...
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Part 2: Suspected Big Baby? Ignorance Is Bliss
Close on the heels of the previous study comes a Medscape report on a study of the effects of a large-for-gestational-age (LGA) diagnosis, meaning the baby's estimated weight is in the upper 10% for that week of pregnancy, in women with gestational diabetes (GD) ....
Part 1: Suspected Big Baby? Ignorance Is Bliss
"Perceptions of fetal size influence interventions in pregnancy, BU study finds," reads the EurekAlert article title. This is hardly breaking news, as every other study of suspected macrosomia has found the same thing; however, this latest study confirms the role of...