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...cost up to $10,000 or more per cycle, and the study group at the Massachusetts clinic likely included many patients less deterred by financial issues than women in the general population, possibly distorting the data. Malizia, who now serves as a reproductive endocrinologist at Alabama Fertility Specialists in Birmingham, Ala., suggests, however, that the live-birth rates of her study group skewed lower than they might have, had the study been conducted elsewhere. "In states where there's no insurance coverage, there's lower access to IVF treatment," she says. "Those who pursue it may have a better chance...
...time I joined the American Civil Liberties Union board of directors in 1988, Charles Morgan Jr. had already departed, but his legacy there was larger than life. A native of Birmingham, Ala., the iconoclast, who died Jan. 8 at 78, fought the city's segregationist leaders in the early 1960s. His vigorous condemnation of the 1963 church bombing that killed four young black girls led to the loss of his law practice...
After representing Muhammad Ali during the boxer's appeal of his draft-evasion conviction, Morgan became director of the ACLU Washington legislative office in 1972. The same stubbornness he had shown in Birmingham, though, also led to his departure from the ACLU. After a dispute with the group's leadership over whether his politically charged statements in a news article were clearly identified as personal rather than professional (the ACLU is nonpartisan), Morgan resigned in 1976. It was just another example of his uncompromising, unforgettable zeal...
...Julius Caesar, who was born via the procedure, and for whom it was named. But today, a trend toward elective cesareans is presenting doctors with another problem - women who insist on delivering earlier than they should, with potential risks to the newborn. Now, researchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) provide the first statistics to quantify exactly how dangerous that practice...
...Ironically, Pellicano was often hired by the government to analyze and improve the quality of taped recordings. In one notable case, he enhanced a decades-old recording on which a Ku Klux Klansman incriminated himself in the bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama church that killed four girls...