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File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the seminar on, "Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality After Preterm Birth", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 15 June 2004. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 25 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality After Preterm Birth, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2005).
Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Dr Edmund Hey), organisers of the meeting (Sir Iain Chalmers and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey) and others include:
List of attendees, suggested outline of meeting, control sheets concerning feedback on transcripts, publishing permissions and marketing leaflets for the meeting.
Handwritten notes and copies of e-mails regarding the organisation of the meeting and notes between the organisers and editors regarding the transcript and accommodating people's comments.
Documents include:
A paper prepared for the seminar prepared by Ross Howie titled, "Prenatal Glucocorticoids in Preterm Birth: A Paediatric View of the History of the Original Studies".
A sheet listing the studies into the effects of corticosteroids.
 A slide prepared for the meeting titled, "Matrix Linking Effectiveness and Cost".
A reprint of an article, B. Wilson, J.G. Thornton, J. Hewison, R.J. Lilford, I. Watt, D. Braunholtz and M. Robinson, "The Leeds University Maternity Audit Project", International Journal for Quality in Health Care, vol.14 no.3, pp.175-181, 2002.
A copy of a review by Patricia Crowley, "Corticosteroids in Pregnancy: The Benefits Outweigh the Costs", Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, no.1, pp.147-150, 1981.

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