Our objective was to study a cohort of women by various means to detect sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and to correlate the presence of mucopurulent exudate (PEX) on Papanicolaou (Pap) smears with pregnancy outcome. Bacteriologic cultures taken from swabs for chlamydia and gonorrhea were correlated with GenProbe results. Smears were examined for trichomonas, yeast, HPV, obscuring mucopurulent exudate, and squamous intraepithelial abnormalities. There was no positive correlation between STD and negative pregnancy outcome. Mucopurulent exudate on Pap smears was very high in this population. Continuing study of this population of women is needed to see if larger cohorts will demonstrate any positive correlations between PEX and pregnancy outcome. Placing women with obscuring mucopurulent exudate in a “high‐risk” category for complications may prevent adverse side effects to the birth product. The Pap smear works as well as the Gram stain for detection of bacterial vaginosis and cervicitis. Eliminating the Gram stain from routine pelvic exam results in cost savings. Diagn. Cytopathol. 1999;21:4–6. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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To test the hypothesis that head position at birth is related to superiority of WISC Verbal (V) or Performance (P) IQ, head position at birth was determined for 212 Ss, including 95 sets of siblings. Children who were born Occiput Left (OL), that is, where the head was situated with the occiput in the left half of the maternal pelvis during delivery, were compared to children born Occiput Right (OR) for differences in WISC IQv and IQp. The results indicated that children born OR had a significantly lower IQv than IQp, but the OLs did not display such a significant difference. When same-sexed sibs were compared, it was found that the OR sib more frequently had higher IQp and lower IQv than his OL mate. No clear relationship was demonstrated for opposite-sexed sibling sets.