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    Progesterone has no place in the prevention of preterm delivery: AGAINST: A call for a measured response to the OPPTIMUM trial

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    With the concluding words of her plenary talk at the 2016 Society for Maternalā€“Fetal Medi-cine Annual Meeting ā€“ ā€˜I wouldnā€™t advise my daughter take vaginal progesteroneā€™ ā€“ had Jane Norman and the OPPTIMUM team placed a proverbial nail in the cofļ¬n of the only class of medication routinely used for the prevention of preterm birth (PTB)? For practitioners in a ļ¬eld with tragically few effective interventions, it is imperative that we cast a critical eye on even the most robust randomized controlled trial (RCT)
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