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Unnecessary tests were commonplace. Often the tests were not even performed. TIME learned that bills were submitted for menstrual and pregnancy tests for male patients; Medicaid was billed for sickle cell anemia tests for whites, though the disease mainly afflicts blacks. Altogether, the eleven labs under investigation collected a total of $6,978,213 in Medicaid money from all their operations last year. Almost a quarter of this amount was estimated to be fraudulent...
...menstrual blood, and it is the source and symbol of a universal taboo. In most cultures, menstruating women are shunned as dangerous or vaguely contaminated. Throughout history, they have been isolated in menstrual huts, forced through purification rituals and sometimes beaten if they ventured into male company during their periods. Exactly why is a mystery. Some think the taboo arose from a general repugnance of having sex with a bloodily discharging woman. Others see it as caused by primitive man's sense of awe-and fear-at the sight of blood that does not clot and signifies neither illness...
...Author Weideger suggests that many of the troubles attributed to menstruation can actually be traced to the taboo. The idea is not new. Some 50 years ago, Anthropologist Margaret Mead observed that in Samoa, where the menstrual taboo is mild, discomfort during periods is slight. The idea of severe cramps and pain, she wrote, "struck all Samoan women as bizarre when it was described to them...
...younger feminist researchers are making the same point. Some argue that the Dalton data merely show that many women have absorbed the mythology of the menstrual taboo. Others challenge the interpretation of the data. For instance, Barnard Psychologist Mary Brown Parlee points out that stress can hasten a period; therefore, many menstruating women who do poorly on exams may be victims of stress, not menstruation. Concludes Parlee: "We believe that hormonal change brings certain sensory change, but there is no scientific proof that the hormones make any difference in a woman's behavior...
...arrived at San Mateo County jail, 25 miles from the courthouse, but Sheriff John McDonald Jr. says she fell quickly into the prison's routine. "Her attitude hasn't changed," says McDonald. "She's still calm, cool and collected." She has also been suffering from menstrual problems, eats only lightly, and has dropped from...