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...exceptionally delicate procedure, performed some 15 to 20 weeks into the pregnancy, is done under a local anesthetic. Doctors scan the woman with pulsed sound waves to locate the fetus, the umbilical cord and the placenta. After making a small incision in the abdomen, they insert into the uterus and the amniotic sac a pencil-lead-thin tube containing an endoscope with fiber-optic bundles that transmit light. This enables the physicians to see tiny areas of the fetus. By inserting biopsy forceps into the tube, doctors can take a 1-mm (.04 in.) skin sample from the fetus. They...
...well-known husband-and-wife obstetrical and gynecological team, as part of the fertility program at Eastern Virginia Medical School. They will use a variation of the technique developed by British Scientists Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards. An egg will be removed, through a small incision in the abdomen, from the ovary of a woman whose fallopian tubes are either hopelessly blocked or too damaged to permit natural fertilization. Then it will be placed in a laboratory dish with the husband's sperm. (Unmarried women are not eligible.) About two days later, the fertilized egg will be inserted into...
...subjects, but even in these areas there is a temptation not to research a choice tale to death. Last month the paper reported: "A young woman was apparently made pregnant by a flying bullet -which tore off the testicle of a Civil War soldier and then passed through her abdomen!" Many celebrity stories are also difficult to verify. Admits Chief of Research Ruth Annan: "Gossip is gossip." Critics argue that at the Enquirer, getting sources is just a matter of finding some informant to say what the paper wants to hear. "It's worth a lawsuit just to find...
...other, less widely used implant is an inflatable prosthesis, developed in 1973 by Baylor University Urologist F. Brantley Scott, Neurologist William Bradley and Bioengineer Gerald Timm. It too requires only a short operation, usually about an hour and a half. Through an incision in the abdomen or the scrotum, two expandable balloon-like cylinders are slipped into the corpora cavernosa. The cylinders are connected by tubing to a small spherical reservoir filled with fluid (which is placed near the bladder under the muscles of the abdominal wall) and to a pump (inserted into the scrotum). To achieve erection...
Francis E. Dutton, an MBTA employee, testified during a special session on Saturday he saw defendant Edward Soares beating Andrew P. Puopolo '77 after Puopolo had been stabbed in the abdomen. Raymond "Scott" Coolidge '78, another member of the Harvard football team, testified on Friday that he saw Leon Easterling, another defendant, repeatedly stab Puopolo in the chest near the van in which several of the players travelled to the Zone for a traditional end-of-season celebration...