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...sent by her obstetrician to the prenatal diagnosis clinic of the University of California-San Francisco. Ultrasound scans showed that she was bearing twins, a boy and a girl. At 28 weeks the female fetus seemed normal, but the male's kidneys and bladder were swollen with fluid backed up in the urinary tract...
Known as hydronephrosis, the condition can lead to death for newborn babies. Normally, fetal urine flows into the amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus; when the lower urinary tract is obstructed, the urine accumulates in the kidneys and bladder, which then begin to balloon, crowding the fetus' developing lungs and damaging the kidneys. In the Skinner case, doctors chose a new and promising method of treatment: surgery with the fetus still in the womb...
...endangered sperm whale was used for years in everything from facial cream to transmission fluid. In 1973 interstate sale of the oil was banned in the U.S., but substitutes, including certain fish and vegetable oils, have also been hard to come...
...develop and to hang together any more consistently than have the now-splintered "Minnesota twins," Burger and Blackmun. Broadly speaking, the court now has two liberals, Brennan and Marshall, in a standoff facing two conservatives, Rehnquist and Burger. The decisions thus often depend on how the other so-called fluid five divide on a given case. And that rarely can be foreseen...
...lose a lot of fluid out on the river without noticing it," Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of UHS, said yesterday, adding "there's also a difference between being overcome by heat on a basketball court with a lot of people around, and being overcome by heat all alone in the middle of the river." The boathouse will stay closed "until the weather breaks," athletic department spokesman Brian Gordon said yesterday...