Word: fetal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first child of a positive-negative couple is usually unaffected. But if the baby is Rh-positive, and the chances are 3 in 5 that he will be, then there is an increasing chance of trouble in later pregnancies. Exposure to Rh-positive fetal blood, which may leak across the placenta or enter the maternal blood stream as a result of hemorrhage during delivery, can cause the Rh-negative mother to become sensitized, or "immunized," against future Rh-positive babies and produce antibodies that attack and destroy the babies' red blood cells...
...artificial placenta - could be conducted on them. Some research physicians feel that such experiments could give them valuable in formation on the causes of miscarriage as well as the effects on the fetus of drugs taken by pregnant women. Others believe that the opportunity to study live fetal tissue, which grows rapidly, might help them to understand better the uncontrolled multiplication of cancer cells...
Outcry. The public outcry over fetal research began last spring, when Oh. Gyn. News, a semimonthly newsletter for obstetricians and gynecologists, reported that the NIH was nearing a decision that would permit funding of such projects. The story generated a storm of controversy among physicians, scientists, lawyers and theologians, many of whom argued that aborted fetuses are beings so close to living humans that the idea of experimenting on them is morally repugnant. Nowhere did it arouse more anger than at the exclusive Stone Ridge Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md. A group of students there...
...shown that these babies are likely to lag behind their heavier contemporaries when they get to school. Columbia's Winick says that 80% of all brain growth takes place between conception and the age of two; growth that fails to take place during this period because of either fetal or infant malnutrition does not take place...
Such far-out visions may be unrealistic, but some changes are taking place. Columbia University's newly established Institute of Human Nutrition is working on the problems of maternal and fetal malnutrition and developing educational materials for use in schools. Food processors, alarmed by the trend toward organic foods and shaken by the growing public reaction against additives, are improving the nutritional quality of many of their products. The Del Monte Corp., the world's largest producer of canned fruits and vegetables, has decided to include nutritional information on the labels of many of its products...