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That was the conclusion reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team led by Gynecologist Daniel Cramer of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. After studying past contraceptive use by 283 childless women with tubal infertility and 3,833 new mothers, the researchers found that women who had used barrier contraceptives had 40% less risk of tubal infertility. The explanation, suggests one of the report's authors, Harvard Epidemiologist Marlene Goldman, is that these contraceptives prevent any germs carried in the semen from reaching the upper genital tract and causing pelvic inflammatory disease...
Zinner also leaves the lay reader searching for firm ground while he uses innumerable technical terms for sexual anatamoy and diseases. Only a gynecologist, or perhaps an extremely advanced biology concentrator can follow his in-depth discussions of many sexual diseases...
...mixture of hormones obtained from the urine of postmenopausal women, stimulates maturation of egg-bearing follicles within the ovaries; sometimes too many eggs are eventually released. "The problem is, it's a very, very delicate balance how much of the stuff to use," says Allan Weingold, an obstetrician and gynecologist at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington. Even with careful monitoring, he says, "you can still overshoot the mark considerably...
...Christmas explosions in Pensacola damaged the Ladies Center Inc., an abortion facility, destroyed the rented offices of Dr. William Permenter, a gynecologist who devotes only about 10% of his practice to abortions, and damaged the clinic of Dr. Bo Bagenholm, an obstetrician who performs some abortions. Permenter said he would stop his abortion practice. "You can't get an office, because people don't want their buildings burned down," he explained of the climate that has been created. "This has become a nightmare." Bagenholm, though, has found new office space and vows to carry on. Said he: "The only...
DIED. John Rock, 94, flinty, pioneering obstetrician-gynecologist who played the key role in developing, testing and popularizing the birth control pill, which helped spark a revolution in sexual mores, population control and the status of women; of a heart attack; in Peterborough, N.H. A researcher in human reproduction who spent the first two-thirds of his career trying to help women overcome infertility, he became alarmed at the specter of world overpopulation and began working on a hormonal birth control method in the 1950s with Biologists Gregory Pincus and Min-chueh Chang. Because the pill they developed used...