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...choriocarcinoma, a rare cancer that attacks the sac surrounding the developing fetus in pregnant women, methotrexate has "in many cases" brought about absolute cures...
Christians were against abortion from the beginning, holding that the fetus is not part of the mother but a person in its own right, and they also opposed contraception. St. Hippolytus in the 3rd century criticized Pope St. Callistus for his leniency in granting absolution to ''women, reputed believers, who began to resort to drugs for producing sterility, and to gird themselves round, so as to expel what was being conceived...
...were etched nearer the center of their palms twice as often as those who had developed heart disease later. The pattern also tended to be more disorganized in the hands of congenital heart patients-a possible result of the same mysterious mechanisms that cause abnormalities to develop in the fetus...
...Step Closer. Using the work of Medawar and others as a starting point, Australia's Burnet theorized that the rejection reaction is not inherited full-blown, instead is developed gradually in the fetus and young child. Burnet speculated that if, during the period of immunological development, the human body could be taught to tolerate grafts from selected donors, it would later be able to accept tissue transplants from those same donors. Seizing on Burnet's thesis. Dr. Medawar proceeded to confirm it in a series of laboratory tests. He inoculated mouse embryos in the womb with tissue from...
...Homer D. Kirgis in San Francisco, the Circle of Willis can also be afflicted by a kind of malign predestination. Some people are candidates for certain types of strokes as a result of what happened-or didn't happen-before they were born. The human fetus goes through a phase in which the internal carotid artery on each side feeds into three branch arteries and supplies most of the blood to its hemisphere of the brain...