Word: estrogen
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...Arthur Lee Herbst, associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and leader of the research team which discovered the relation between estrogen and vaginal cancer is leaving Harvard to join the University of Chicago, the University of Chicago announced yesterday...
...Herbst and a team of Boston doctors discovered that daughters of women who took diethylstilbestrol (DES), an estrogen compound, during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage had a distinct tendency to develop vaginal cancer...
...Robert Kistner of Harvard Medical School, a pioneer in Clomid treatment, feels that multiple pregnancies can and should be prevented before they start. Kistner treats women who do not respond to Clomid alone by priming them first with small doses of Clomid and Pergonal, then checking their estrogen (female hormone) levels to estimate how many eggs they are about to release...
...profiling on all their hypertension patients. Most physicians already follow Laragh's lead in another area. In 1967 Laragh discovered and reported a link between oral contraceptives and high blood pressure. Other researchers confirmed the connection, but it remained for Laragh to explain it: the Pill's estrogen-like substances stimulate the renin system, which in turn causes increased aldosterone production. The result in about 25% of all women who use the Pill: high blood pressure. Laragh and his colleagues now routinely recommend that victims of Pill hypertension try another method of birth control...
...that Morris conveys about his family make clear what extraordinary pressure he must have felt to do what he finally did. For when the children were well along into their teens, so that Morris and Elizabeth felt that the change would not harm them, he began massive doses of estrogen and opened medical negotiations that led to surgery...