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...writings include a book titled As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now, to head an influential Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel on women's health policy. Sources tell Time that the agency's choice for the advisory panel is Dr. W. David Hager, an obstetrician-gynecologist who also wrote, with his wife Linda, Stress and the Woman's Body, which puts "an emphasis on the restorative power of Jesus Christ in one's life" and recommends specific Scripture readings and prayers for such ailments as headaches and premenstrual syndrome. Though his resume describes Hager...
DIED. ORVAN W. HESS, 96, pioneering obstetrician and gynecologist; in New Haven, Conn. In 1942 Orvan injected a human patient with penicillin in a last-ditch effort to save her and became the first doctor in clinical practice to use the antibiotic successfully. Fifteen years later, he developed the first fetal-heart monitor. Today versions are used in delivery rooms worldwide...
...turned 60, is confused and angry. Ten years ago, when she was approaching menopause, her doctor started her on hormone-replacement therapy, or HRT. "I didn't have any symptoms," she recalls, "but he recommended it for general well-being, bones and heart." Many years and pills later, her gynecologist suggested that perhaps it was time to stop. After all, there had been reports that HRT might increase a woman's risk of breast cancer, a disease that had afflicted Pierres' mother and aunt. She turned to several other physicians for advice. They couldn't seem to agree. Now comes...
...became pregnant. Her doctor suggested an abortion, and after a fruitless search for more information, she had the procedure. This week Amy wrote to the cousincouples.com website that she planned to get many copies of the report--"one that I will personally deliver to my ex-gynecologist...
...walks onstage. When people stop applauding, he thanks them for coming out in Iditarod weather, makes a few cracks about Enron and Arthur Andersen (the latter has its headquarters in Chicago), and the audience is his. He segues into the Olympic luge competition--"invented by a drunken German gynecologist; you steer with Kegels"--and then it is on to anthrax and botox, and then he jumps straight into Sept. 11. He gets cheers for a bit on a flight attendant telling passengers that in the event of a hijacking, a Louisville Slugger will fall from the compartment above--"Apply...