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TYING THE KNOT Heard that tubal sterilization means having to live with difficult menstrual periods? Not so, finds the largest study yet on the topic. Women who underwent the contraceptive procedure--in which the Fallopian tubes are tied, cauterized or clamped--were compared with women in a control group. Result? No difference was found in menstrual pain, amount of bleeding or length of cycle...
...want to overwhelm girls," says Mavis Jukes, author of Growing Up: It's a Girl Thing. While blossoming third-graders need frank talk about how to handle unwelcome sexual attention, she says, they don't need explicit information on birth control and STDs or windy speeches about sperm and Fallopian tubes. So instead of preparing the Big Talk, it's best to start a series of casual conversations about your daughter's more immediate concerns, which may surprise you. According to Lynda Madaras, co-author of My Body, My Self for Girls and a puberty educator for 25 years, your...
Just a decade ago, if an Indian nurse told a woman about to give birth that she should have an operation, it might have meant something else altogether. It might have been surgery to have her Fallopian tubes cut so she could never have another child. Even though family planning had a bad reputation after the abandonment of the Gandhi government's coercive vasectomy program in the 1970s, states like Tamil Nadu still set birthrate targets and quietly instructed health-care workers to urge patients to be sterilized. The policy was often aimed at women rather than men. In fact...
...himself tossed into solitary for helping other prisoners escape. Setting up a practice in obstetrics and gynecology after the war, he raised professional eyebrows by pioneering a newfangled fiber-optic device called a laparoscope to perform minimally invasive abdominal surgery. In 1966, to help women with blocked Fallopian tubes, a major cause of infertility, he teamed up with Edwards, a Cambridge physiologist who had developed a way to fertilize human eggs...
...ovaries removed for medical reasons. Steptoe realized that with a laparoscope he could siphon eggs directly from infertile women. If the eggs were retrieved at just the right time and then fertilized in vitro, they could be transferred into the uterus, thereby circumventing the sometimes perilous journey down the Fallopian tubes...