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...personally like to practice under 'Do no harm,'" says Dr. Kimberly Gregory, director of maternal-fetal medicine and women's health services at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. "Surgery is a major procedure." Gregory says most women ask for C-sections because they're afraid of complicated deliveries or long, painful labor. Though she has performed a few elective procedures, she doesn't do them routinely and says good doctors should be able to allay women's fears by discussing the use of drugs and breathing techniques, which can ease pain...
...Understanding, spoke for an hour Saturday about using Islamic scripture to resolve complicated issues surrounding stem cell research and genomic therapy. He discussed how the Fiqh Council, an Islamic advisory body which issues interpretations of the law, has provided guidelines on controversial topics such as the use of fetal stem cells for research purposes...
...shoved together in the far corner of a conference room at Montefiore Medical Center's Comprehensive Family Care facility in the Bronx, N.Y. She lifts up her T shirt, lowers her pants and watches obstetrician Liza Kunz squirt gel on her big, full belly. As the doctor slides a fetal heart monitor across her skin, Strong isn't the only one listening carefully for the reassuring sound of a baby's heartbeat. Gathered in the room with her are four equally pregnant women. They all arrived as a group to have their obstetrics checkup together...
...this reason that supporters of abortion rights oppose legislation, such as the Woman’s Right to Know Act currently under consideration in the Massachusetts legislature, which would require the doctor to provide the woman with information on fetal development, alternatives to abortion and the possible physical and emotional consequences of abortion before she consents to the procedure. In Pennsylvania, the abortion rate fell by 13 percent in the first year after such legislation was enacted: when women are more fully aware of what abortion is, what it could do to them and what other options they have, they...
...faith is being rewarded. A book of Tsiaras' images of fetal development, From Conception to Birth, published last year (and excerpted in TIME), has sold 150,000 copies. Nike hired AT to produce animated spots revealing the anatomy of a golfer's swing, and drug companies like Amgen and Pfizer are using AT simulations to show how new drugs work at the molecular level...