Word: fallopian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Together with Indonesia's most prominent male feminist cleric, Kyai Husein Muhammad, Marcoes-Natsir has developed a course for teaching gender equality in Islam. On a hot summer morning in Cirebon, Northern Java, she taught a workshop on reproductive health, which had her gamely sketching fallopian tubes on a white-board, and parsing Quranic verses on reproductive rights. From the young men and women students, there were nods, furious scribblings, and the odd giggle. And then there was the group of young women, all majoring in gender studies at the local Islamic college, who were snapping pictures to post...
...interview that six were implanted, with two resulting in twins. The sperm donor remains unidentified; one person ruled out was Nadya's ex-husband Marcos Gutierrez (their divorce was finalized last year). Angela told the Associated Press that her daughter opted for IVF treatment because her Fallopian tubes were "plugged up" and that she decided to have more children so the frozen embryos left over from her previous fertilizations wouldn't be destroyed. In her television interview, Nadya said she wanted lots of children because she had grown up an only child in a dysfunctional family...
...feet in stirrups and her husband by her side. She was awake and relaxed enough to let me watch (weird, I know) as Bennett inserted first a thin camera into her uterus and then, using a video monitor as a guide, a small coil into each of her Fallopian tubes. Afterward, Jackson walked to her car and went home to her kids. (See the Year in Health, from...
...hours akin to the ones during her period. The 1 1/2-in.-long (38 mm) coils--which are like pen springs but smaller and softer--contain fibers that irritate the tubes and prompt scar tissue to grow into and around the tiny loops. After three months, the Fallopian tubes are blocked, preventing eggs from reaching the uterus to be fertilized...
...Conceptus, the Mountain View, Calif., manufacturer, started training lots of docs to perform the procedure in their offices. The firm recently launched its first big advertising campaign. Rival company Hologic hopes to gain FDA approval in 2009 for Adiana, a soft silicone polymer similarly inserted to seal off the Fallopian tubes...