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...anticipated that the world might be, well, curious about her case, she was right. Infertility rates in industrialized countries have been rising for three decades, mostly as a result of women delaying childbirth. From 1988 to 1995 alone, the number of American women of childbearing age who suffered from fertility problems jumped from 4.9 million to 6.1 million, a 25% increase. Any breakthrough that could do something about this trend would be big news indeed...
WEIGHTY MATTERS Women who gain more than 10 lbs. in the years before conceiving double their odds of developing diabetes in pregnancy. It usually disappears after childbirth, but chances are strong that it will recur later...
Washington Square centers around Catherine Sloper, a young woman whose individual identity is constantly undermined by her relations to the men around her. Her father sees in Catherine the ghost of his wife, who died in childbirth, and thus continually perceives her as a disappointment, a symbol of his own loss. "At the beginning of the film," says Holland, "Catherine seems 'stupid' because the father and the aunt see her that...
There were other crises. Hesselink had just taken off at sunset from the small airstrip at Nimne, not far from Duar, when he got a radio call from Seaman asking him to return and pick up a woman having complications in childbirth. "I told her it was crazy. It was too late. We would crash," says Hesselink. "She made me do it anyway." After picking up the woman and Seaman in Nimne, Hesselink flew in the dark to Ler, where there was better equipment. As the plane approached the field, the Nuer lit fires along the runway. After being treated...
...himself in Brooklyn politics before moving to Capitol Hill 14 years ago. The former hospital administrator has worked for stricter FDA regulations and more liberal health-care benefits, and pushed a bill--passed in September--to require health plans to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay after childbirth...