Word: fetuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widest study yet made of the effect of German measles on the fetus when it strikes a woman during the first three months of pregnancy. In 1957 an epidemic swept 2,000,000 Formosans. The island's high pregnancy rate gives Namru-2 a mass of data now being analyzed...
...times as much Sr-89as Sr-90 in his bones). A pregnant woman may get Sr-89 in milk or other fresh foods, so the danger is greatest to the unborn, said Dr. Schulert, "since the growing fetal skeleton reflects the diet of the mother," and the fast-growing fetus is especially vulnerable to damage from radiation...
When babies stay in the womb too long, said Dr. Nechtow, the death rate is three times that of normal-term babies. One reason: the placenta may shrink, so the fetus is forced to live off his own tissues and loses weight. At the same time, the difficulty of delivery increases, with more frequent breech presentations, use of mid-forceps and Caesarean section. While Dr. Nechtow warned the G.P.s against resorting lightly to drastic measures, he urged them not to hesitate to induce labor or do a Caesarean section if the examination convinces them that the time is overripe...
From Twin or Fetus. This "autograft" principle was the basis of U.S. efforts to arrest leukemia. A four-year-old girl in Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, in Cooperstown, N.Y., was near death, and anti-leukemia drugs would no longer give any relief. Dr. E. Donnall Thomas told an American Cancer Society seminar at Excelsior Springs, Mo. how he then placed the child between two cobalt "bombs" (equivalent to 2,000,000-volt X-ray machines) and subjected her to 800 r.-more than had ever before been given intentionally to a human being. Then he injected marrow cells taken from...
Because only one in about 200 people has an identical twin to serve as donor, Dr. Thomas has tried injecting another child leukemia victim with marrow cells taken from a fetus in a therapeutic abortion. (Fetal cells rarely trigger the antibody reaction.) It is too early, he said, to judge results in this case...