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...after undergoing a surprise review, aFlorida hospital plagued by disastrous mistakeslost the accreditation needed to continue receiving Medicare payments. In recent months at University Community hospital, one patient had the wrong leg amputated, another was killed when his ventilator was mistakenly shut off, and a doctor tied off a fallopian tube in a female patient who had not authorized the procedure. The hospital has 20 days to appeal the finding, which could cost it over $50 million in federal payments...
...Women who have their Fallopian tubes tied to prevent pregnancy lower by 67% their risk of contracting ovarian cancer. The new finding raises hopes that tubal sterilization can reduce mortality from ovarian cancer, which kills 12,000 American women each year...
When I first learned about menstruation at age seven," says Margie Profet, "I couldn't believe it! Then when we watched these films when I was 10 or 11 -- remember those cartoons that showed the ovaries and the Fallopian tubes? -- I thought, This is really bizarre. And when they said, 'Well, the body gets rid of the uterine lining because it has nothing to do,' I thought that didn't make sense. It bugged...
That dream evolved, after plenty of thought and research, into a full-blown thesis. Profet's reasoning begins with the observation that potentially harmful bacteria can catch a ride into the womb and Fallopian tubes by attaching themselves to sperm. The microbes can come from the male or get picked up in the vagina during sex. Menstruation eliminates the threatening intruders in two ways: the sloughed-off uterine lining carries the microbes off, and the blood itself is rich in immune cells ready to gobble up any alien invaders...
...April scientists from Israel and the U.S reported a new finding that may offer yet another way to help infertile couples. It had long been assumed that there was no communication between egg and sperm until they collided in the Fallopian tube. But by closely watching the behavior of sperm in test tubes containing the fluid from an egg's follicular sac, an interesting effect was observed. A small number of sperm seemed to change their swimming patterns in response to chemicals secreted by the egg or cells around...