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...Blake did breathe, and today he is a healthy nine-month-old -- thanks to a dramatic operation carried out when he was still a fetus. This procedure, the most impressive achievement yet in the young field of fetal surgery, was performed by Dr. Michael Harrison and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco and reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Seven weeks before Blake was born, the doctors cut into his mother's uterus and partly removed the fetus. Then they opened his left side, patched the hole in his diaphragm and put his organs...
...never before had physicians successfully performed such major surgery in the womb. Harrison hopes that his technique can be used to correct other potentially fatal problems, including large lung or spinal tumors and certain heart conditions. Several experts echoed that optimism. "We're in a whole new era of fetal treatment," said Dr. Eugene Pergament, head of reproductive genetics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...
...know that millions of dollars from Harvard's endowment propped up a firm that specialized in fetal tissue research? And that additional endowment funds supported a technology business whose founder was convicted of conspiring to sell supercomputers to the Soviets...
Hana Biologics Inc., Alameda, Calif.: Aeneas Venture owns about $10 million worth of stock in this biotech firm. After controversial fetal tissue experiments failed and stock prices crashed, large investors took over--and Aeneas partner Michael R. Eisenson was installed as a director...
Idaho's bill will give her a chance to disclose just what sort of burdens she has in mind. It provides that abortions be banned except in cases involving a rape that is reported within seven days; incest, if the girl is under 18 and reports it; severe fetal deformity; and threat to the mother's health. By those standards, about 95% of the 1,650 abortions that were performed in the state in 1988 would now be illegal. Though women who have abortions would not be sent to jail, their doctors could be liable for a $10,000 civil...