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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
With the concluding words of her plenary talk at the 2016 Society for MaternalāFetal Medi-cine Annual Meeting ā āI wouldnāt 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)