Fundamental and clinical research and patient care: a triad for progress in reproductive medicine.
This essay reviews select instances in the modern history of reproductive medicine, with particular emphasis on the past 25 years since the establishment of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. It considers five examples of how fundamental and clinical research have contributed to patient care and, in turn, received stimulus from them; that is, fertility regulation and reproductive endocrinology, prematurity and the initiation of parturition, antenatal testing of fetal maturity, antenatal diagnosis, and neonatal intensive care. Finally, some lessons regarding the interrelationships between research and clinical obstetrics and gynecology are considered.
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Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, CA 92350.
D005260:Female; D006176:Gynecology; D006801:Humans; D007224:Infant Care; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010372:Pediatrics; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care; D012106:Research