Word: fetal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many roads to a caesarean. In fact, it often seemed to Harrison that all roads led there. If the mother has not delivered within two hours after her cervix has dilated fully, protocol generally calls for a caesarean or forceps-assisted delivery. If highly sensitive monitors detect "fetal distress," a section is of ten done. If the mother has received so much local anesthetic that she cannot push, she may be cut. Three out of the first four deliveries at "Doctors" in which Harrison assisted were caesareans, though the hospital records show a 19% rate. Doctors like to do caesareans...
DIED. Dennis Stone, 52, prominent epidemiologist who co-wrote the definitive study of the links between fetal deformities and drugs used by pregnant women; of a brain tumor; in Lexington, Mass. Slone's 1977 Birth Defects and Drugs in Pregnancy concluded that the most commonly used painkillers, tranquilizers and sleeping pills involve little risk to fetuses. Last year, however, his team reported that women who used oral contraceptives for a long time doubled or tripled their chances of having a heart attack...
...recent medical advances, however, should lessen these problems. The first is the use of ultrasound scanning. High-frequency-sound-wave tests, given to many expectant mothers to check fetal development, can detect a cleft palate if administered in the last few weeks before birth. Devised by doctors at the Women's Hospital in Houston, the method may provide unpleasant information, but, says Dr. H. William Porterfield, president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, "at least parents have the opportunity to plan for what can and should be done in an atmosphere of reasonable calm...
Dioxin has recently been linked by researchers to cancer, fetal death and birth defects. It is also a major component of Agent Orange, a defoliant used in Vietnam...
...delicate work of fashioning a constitution for Harvard's new student government continued to move ahead slowly this week, but increasingly signs indicated that the Founding Fathers of the fetal undergraduate council would not see the fruits of their labor until long after their mid-winter deadline...