Game-Changing Concepts in Reproductive Health
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Diagnosis and Prognosis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 665
Special Issue Editors
Interests: CVS; fetal reduction; prenatal diagnosis; amniocentesis; ultrasound; nuchal translucency screening; fetal therapy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The published research juggernaut is largely occupied by relatively incremental studies building upon an existing foundation which flood the literature and only advance the field in small increments. Such studies often predominate for several years. Periodically, however, there are game-changing discoveries that advance our understanding onto a new playing field, often with new rules, and which force everyone to think differently to how they did the day before. It is these sentinel discoveries that make careers and can have highly leveraged implications for both individual patients and public health. In women’s reproductive medicine, the logarithmic growth of molecular techniques and accompanying bioinformatics has translated into rapid changes in our appreciation of fetal, neonatal, childhood, and adult diagnoses and set the stage for new therapies. This Special Issue seeks research articles and reviews exploring such game-changing discoveries and how they are presented, argued, resisted, and ultimately translated and implemented into actual patient care.
Prof. Dr. Mark I. Evans
Dr. Christian R. Macedonia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pregnancy
- artificial intelligence
- prenatal diagnosis
- genetic sequencing
- diagnostic tests
- screening tests
- public policy
- electronic fetal monitoring
- introducing new technologies
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