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BIRTH DEFECTS An Australian study published in March reported that IVF children are twice as likely to suffer birth defects--such as cleft palate, a hole in the heart or kidney problems--as children conceived the usual way. Several earlier studies have shown no differences between the two kinds of babies, so further research is needed. Even if the apparent increase is real, it might not be clear whether the birth defects are caused by the artificial reproductive technology or by whatever underlying problem caused the infertility in the first place...
...first study, doctors in Britain and Australia found that infants conceived with both straightforward test-tube methods and a more invasive technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in which sperm is injected directly into the egg, have an 8.6% risk of major birth defects--including heart and kidney abnormalities, cleft palate and undescended testicles--compared with the 4.2% rate in babies made the old-fashioned...
BABIES AT RISK Could cleft palate and spina bifida be the result of stress during pregnancy? That's the implication of a study of more than 20,000 Danish women. The researchers found that pregnant women struggling with emotionally wrenching life changes--a death in the immediate family, say, or a partner suffering a heart attack--had a higher incidence of congenital problems than women with relatively stress-free pregnancies. Two stressful pregnancies in a row doubled the chances of having a child with congenital problems...
...work with Murphy. He has other makeup skills beyond the dreams of Max Factor: old age (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman), space aliens (the first Star Wars and Men in Black), lycanthropes (Wolf and An American Werewolf in London) and dead movie stars. Using a chin cleft and extended ears, he helped Martin Landau turn into Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's Ed Wood. Both won Oscars. "Without Rick's makeup, I couldn't have done it," says Landau...
Cross a mist-shrouded mountain pasture pitted with craters, past four dead horses eviscerated by scavengers, over a trampled barbed wire fence and you are in Kosovo. A thin trail leads down through light green scrub oak to a rutted dirt road, which in turn winds deeper into the cleft of a narrow valley. The mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands...