The decades-old clinical practice of giving multiple courses of steroids to pregnant women at risk of delivering prematurely may actually cause harm to the baby, a new study in the Dec. 20/27 Lancet shows.
“This will be the definitive study on repeated doses,” says John Newnham of the University of Western Australia in Perth.
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