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...humans—it would be grossly irresponsible to try, and we’re completely opposed to it.” Rather, institute researchers want to extract stem cell lines from the early stages of embryonic growth—not implant the embryo back into a woman to birth a child. We hope that the University’s ethic board will see the distinction between potentially lifesaving stem cell research on diseases such as Parkinson’s, diabetes or Alzheimers and the type of reproductive cloning that produced Dolly...
Thankfully, this enchanting scenario remains the case most of the time. But the odds of a healthy start in life quickly begin to fall whenever a baby is born more than a few weeks shy of the typical 40-week-long pregnancy. Premature birth--by which doctors mean at least three weeks early--is the leading cause of developmental disability in children, including cerebral palsy and mental retardation, according to Dr. Eve Lackritz of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. It is also a significant cause of blindness, chronic lung problems and birth defects...
...expectant mother at greater risk of delivering early. They're looking into the possibility that other factors, such as stress, diet (both before and after conception) and inflammation may also play a role. But they have something of a medical mystery on their hands. "Nearly half of preterm births are from unclear causes," says Dr. Nancy Green, medical director of the March of Dimes, which is in the early stages of a five-year, $75 million campaign to address the issue. You can do everything right and still give birth to a premature baby...
...Ohio State University in Columbus. "But it doesn't work that way." Indeed, many researchers believe they won't really have a good grasp of how to prevent prematurity until they answer an even more fundamental question: How does a woman's body decide it's time to give birth in the first place...
...that was used in the 1950s and '60s to prevent premature delivery and turned out to cause, among other things, reproductive-tract abnormalities and a rare cancer. Unlike DES, however, progesterone has a long safety record. And it is not being used in the earliest days of pregnancy, when birth defects are more likely to occur. What progesterone doesn't have is a major manufacturer, because the drug is not protected by a patent. Instead it is usually produced in small batches at compounding pharmacies...