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...becomes a blastocyst or shortly before, it is ready for implanting. One way this can be done is by picking up the egg, which is still no bigger than the dot at the end of this sentence, with a tiny hollow tube, or pipette, then inserting it through the cervix and into the uterus. If all goes well, it will implant itself in the uterine wall. At least a week must pass before the doctors know if the patient is indeed pregnant...
Chlamydial infections usually produce mild but recognizable symptoms in men: pain during urination and a clear, watery mucoid discharge. The infection is not as readily apparent in women; chlamydia can remain unnoticed in the cervix, producing no apparent symptoms. Left untreated, the infection may lead to serious complications. Men can develop inflammation of the epididymis, which carries sperm from the testis. In women, inflammation may occur in the cervix or the fallopian tubes (which can become blocked, causing sterility) and other pelvic areas. Even worse, the infection can be passed on to babies during birth, causing eye infections and pneumonia...
Hannah Jackson, 42, is told by her doctor that she has cancer of the cervix. Fortunately the disease is at an early stage. One operation and then Hannah can resume the life of a middle-class English suburban housewife. She says no. She will take the two years remaining to her, thank you, and call it a life. Irked at having his advice dismissed so airily, and by a woman to boot, the doctor asks Hannah why. "I have not done anything at all without someone else's interests being the prime factor," she replies. "This is the last...
...drug companies declare that the medication was effective in its basic purpose-combatting miscarriage-and that clear-cell adenocarcinoma, a cancer of the vagina or cervix, appears naturally in the population as a whole. In addition, according to one drug-company lawyer, the DES lawsuits have "many persnickety permutations." Although thousands of young women whose mothers took DES have developed the adenosis formation, so far fewer than 200 of them are known to be suffering from the cancer. One of the first legal complications for most victims in suing, however, is the difficulty in linking an individual pill user with...
...husband, Warren, who is domineering, yet charming and from whom she can never entirely escape, to Leonard, the wealthy lawyer of radical causes, who much more subtly and sympathetically manipulates her, and finally to Boca Grande. This, a banana republic which Charlotte felt, in some dim way, was the "cervix of the world" through which her child, lost of history, would also pass...