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...transformation of the medical clinic into a kind of after-hours meeting place where nervous but lonely people will be able to undergo a battery of health tests and, while awaiting the results, stop by the bar to enjoy a trendy snack with others who may have the same ailment. (I predict that honey-roasted songbirds will be the snack of choice by then because they will turn out to be the last remaining edible creature that is domestically plentiful, low in fat and still has not been made into a trendy snack item...
...that most children with Down syndrome, the genetic abnormality that leads to physical deformity and mental retardation, were born to women age 35 and older. For that reason, many older expectant mothers now have amniocentesis to see whether the baby's genes bear the telltale defects associated with the ailment. The result is that fully 80% of victims today -- in the U.S. at least -- are born to mothers 35 and younger. These women tend to avoid amniocentesis because for them the risk of bearing kids with Down syndrome is significantly lower than the risk from the testing procedure itself, which...
According to Del Tredici, every American elm on Harvard's property--about 65 trees in all--will eventually die from Dutch Elm disease. The ailment has forced the University to cut down many trees already, most recently two in front of Holworthy Hall...
...minor incident years back. The man got promoted and continued to bother other women. Now she thinks maybe she should have made a little noise. An Air Force staff sergeant recalls a military doctor who used to pat the buttocks and breasts of many female patients, regardless of their ailment. As for the men, they stand divided. One Navy ensign has little sympathy. "A lot of women," he says, "bring it on themselves." Air Force Sergeant Bradley Ahrensfield, on the other hand, says there is "no excuse" for such behavior. Officially at least, every man in the Navy better adopt...
...slender, unmarried women as candidates for gallbladder disease." Prejudiced and mistaken notions also can govern the treatment offered to black women, lesbians and those with a history of venereal disease. For example, says Smith, a doctor quickly diagnosed in a young, married black woman chronic pelvic inflammatory disease -- an ailment that results from previous venereal infection -- though nothing in her history supported such a judgment. Actually, her symptoms and history perfectly matched a diagnosis of endometriosis, a different condition...