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Melissa Skala receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Kristin Myers receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Obstetricians are very good at managing the process of birth. But when it comes to ...