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...This program has helped me enter the work force, and it's helped me build up my self-esteem and character," says Carlos Pennix, 25, a clerical aide assistant with the Potomac Power Electric Co. in Washington. Pennix, who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, started with the power company as an intern in 1992 when he was in high school...
Testing is, of course, already commonplace. As many as 9 out of 10 pregnant women in the U.S. submit to some prenatal screening. Typically, this involves sampling the mother's blood--so-called serum-alpha-fetoprotein testing to seek out telltale proteins that may indicate spina bifida, neural-tube defects or Down syndrome--or looking directly at the fetus with ultrasound scans. For women over 35, doctors usually recommend more invasive procedures in which actual fetal cells are gathered from the womb's amniotic fluid (amniocentesis) or placenta (chorionic villus sampling...
Benefits from this new era are coming fast. Prenatal screening has helped to reduce more than 95% the number of Tay-Sachs births among American Jews of East European descent, a high-risk group. As a result of early identification, a few congenital conditions, such as spina bifida, a disabling hole in the spinal cord, are being treated in the womb by experimental surgery at about seven months. Sex-selection techniques based on in-vitro fertilization can reduce the risk of giving birth to a baby with sex-linked disorders, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and hemophilia, which affect only...
...been more than five years since a ghastly plague passed through Brownsville, Texas, crippling and killing dozens of newborn babies. From 1988 to '92, 25 children were born with the spinal-nerve defect called spina bifida; more than 30 others had almost no brain at all--a related and fatal neural defect called anencephaly. "It would look like somebody took a knife and just whacked the top of their head off," said Brownsville physician Manuel Guajardo...
...reserve for the 49ers who threw two interceptions in a loss to the Dallas Cowboys, was "an embarrassment to humankind." What he didn't know was that Grbac had said he was distracted during the game by worry over his son, who had recently undergone surgery for spina bifida. Brown apologized the following day. Grbac accepted, but added, "It would be hard to shake his hand, just because of what my wife and kid have gone through." Do N.F.L. moms vote...