Word: birth
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...parents of a healthy three-month-old girl. And as well-off professionals, they can afford to brush off the incident as a minor bureaucratic irritation. But for many other would-be parents, the rapidly expanding availability of genetic tests to identify inherited ailments before or after birth often raises issues that are not so easily resolved...
...psyches: What if the news from a test is bad? Or ambiguous? Should the fetus be aborted? Or should the child be brought into the world in hopes that a cruel disease can be managed or cured? And will insurance coverage be available if the condition was known at birth...
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...
...crew: Picard, full of youthful energy, begins to fall in love with the Ba'ku leader Anij. Worf (Michael Dorn) returns to puberty with enormous "gorches" (pimples), while Deanna (Marina Sirtis) and Riker (Jonathan Frakes) romp and giggle as their sex-drives increase. And Geordi (LeVar Burton), blind since birth, discovers that he can see without his electronic eyes...
...Odera was born on Dec. 20 along with six of her brothers and sisters. A girl born two weeks earlier on Dec. 7 makes the birth the first reported delivery of living octuplets in 50 years...