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...images of their babies, Dr. Leon Hansen set up a retail offshoot of his practice that offered high-tech images in a low-rent setting--a mall. Women soon flocked there to buy sonogram videos and pictures made strictly for keepsake purposes. Hansen has since sold his stake in Fetal Fotos, but the business is booming with a dozen outlets across the country and a host of imitators with cutesy names like Peek-a-Boo Ultrasounds and Womb with a View...
...understand. Someone isn’t depressed if that person is feeling really down one day or even feeling blue for a week. The intense sadness is indescribable. I can tell you what it’s like to be sitting on your kitchen floor, curled up in the fetal position, crying as you stare at the cutting block and imagine taking one of the knives out and stabbing it into your chest. I can tell you what it’s like to be in the mental ward of a hospital, and after three days, feel so confined that...
...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week tightened restrictions on the prescription acne medication Accutane (isotretinoin) and its generic equivalents. The drug has long been known to cause birth defects, and in 2002, Accutane's manufacturer, Roche, had put a program in place to further limit fetal exposure. But now the FDA says that program, along with several similar efforts to restrict use of the generic equivalents, created confusion and failed to protect pregnant women and their embryos. Under the new measures, manufacturers will register doctors who prescribe the drug, pharmacies that dispense it and patients who take it. Patients...
...says. “I’m trying to find out what the alcohol’s doing in the inner ear that’s causing the auditory problems in the fish. I’m using that to extrapolate what might be happening in fetal alcohol syndrome in humans…The first round of results showed basically no cell growth in the hair cells of fish treated with alcohol compared to control. Indeed, alcohol is stopping cell growth.”He’s excited by the subject, and it shows...
...Dubble performed next to her. Punctuated scattato notes were reflected by Dubble’s arms whirling in a windmill-like fashion. The organic feel of their collaboration was apparent at the end of this piece, when Dubble found that the music brought her to the ground in a fetal position...