On Friday, February 28, 2020, we are sponsoring a scientific meeting on the Basic Pathobiology of Uterine Fibroids to be held at NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC. Presentations from scientists working on the basic mechanisms of fibroid development and growth, as well as new therapeutic approaches ...

Most of us in the US tend to think of birth as a joyous, happy occasion and during this season some talk about the miracle of birth.  However, sometimes birth is not a happy event and can be tragic. Thirty years or so ago I received a call in the middle of the night.  “Dr. Leppert,” the person on ...

In a recent blog we reported work by Judith Zelicoff of NYU that pregnant mice exposed to e-cigarette vapor developed neuroinflammation and cytokine expression in the brains of offspring and altered memory function and emotional processing in these pups.