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Under normal circumstances, pregnancy occurs when an ovum, or egg cell, released by a woman's ovary during ovulation is fertilized in the fallopian tube by a single sperm that has traveled up from the vagina. After the fertilized egg undergoes a number of cell divisions, the tiny clump of cells enters the uterus, where it burrows into the wall and develops until birth. But the Browns, married nine years, had been unable to conceive a child because of Lesley's faulty fallopian tubes. "Three years ago," Lesley says, "we were told that there was no chance that...
...readily apparent in women; chlamydia can remain unnoticed in the cervix, producing no apparent symptoms. Left untreated, the infection may lead to serious complications. Men can develop inflammation of the epididymis, which carries sperm from the testis. In women, inflammation may occur in the cervix or the fallopian tubes (which can become blocked, causing sterility) and other pelvic areas. Even worse, the infection can be passed on to babies during birth, causing eye infections and pneumonia. Says Epidemiologist Julius Schachter of the University of California at San Francisco: "Five percent, at a minimum, of all newborn infants are exposed...
Your article on birth control [Jan. 10] goes around Robin Hood's barn for an answer to the birth control problem. Why take chances with pills, vaccines, etc., when a vasectomy in males and tying of fallopian tubes in females ends the problem quickly and finally? N.R. Vance Nashville...
...successful experiment began in Texas in the spring of 1975, when Researchers Duane Kraemer, Gary Moore and Martin Kramen removed a fertilized egg from a baboon five days after she had mated with a male. At that point the egg had moved from her fallopian tube and was floating freely, but it had not yet become implanted in the uterine wall, where there would have been more difficulty in removing it. The fertilized egg was then implanted in the uterine wall of a second female that had been chosen as foster mother because she had ovulated on the same...
...More common causes: male sterility and infections that scar the lining of the uterus and fallopian tubes...