Word: diaphragmic
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...around in a power wheelchair activated by a chin-controlled joystick. He is mobile enough to attend T.C. Williams public high school, where he is an honor student and a member of the French and Latin clubs. Unable to breathe without assistance, Bob has been fitted with an Avery Diaphragm Pacer, which uses a battery-powered transmitter to send electric impulses to his phrenic nerve. This causes his diaphragm to contract, simulating normal breathing. "Without this technology, Bobby wouldn't be alive," says Dr. Alan Fields, associate director of critical care at Children's Hospital in Washington...
...complex equipment can also be fragile and costly to maintain. Bob Cushmac's Diaphragm Pacer once shut down when he was caught in the rain. Another time it stopped when someone spilled coffee on it. He might have suffocated, but a nurse is with him at all times to provide help. Says George Cushmac, Bob's father: "It's lovely stuff, but it comes with the price of having to repair it when it breaks down. This isn't like owning a Maytag washer with a serviceman waiting to be called...
...women trained to counsel on issues of contraception, sex, relationships, sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, and abortion. Aside from our weekly office hours we do outreaches for almost all of the first-year proctor groups. In these outreaches we present basic information about condoms, foam, the contraceptive sponge, the diaphragm, the contraceptive pill and natural methods of contraception...
Half the adults tested, for instance, did not know that a lubricant like Vaseline Intensive Care or baby oil can cause microscopic holes in a condom or a diaphragm in as little as 60 seconds and that this could lead to unwanted pregnancy, venereal disease or even AIDS. An alarming 49% did not know that a woman can get pregnant if she has sex during her menstrual period; 35% were unaware that a woman can get pregnant even if the man withdraws before ejaculating...
...colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco and reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Seven weeks before Blake was born, the doctors cut into his mother's uterus and partly removed the fetus. Then they opened his left side, patched the hole in his diaphragm and put his organs back in the right places...