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...happens, they were wrong. Says Gynecologist Howard Jones, who, together with his wife, Endocrinologist Georgeanna Seegar Jones, founded the first American in-vitro program at Norfolk in 1978: "It turns out that if you get the sperm to the egg quickly, most often you inhibit the process." According to Jones, the pioneers of IVF made so many wrong assumptions that "the birth of Louise Brown now seems like a fortunate coincidence...
...learn more about the individual patient. But the stakes are high: in the U.S., each attempt costs between $3,000 and $5,000, not including travel costs and time away from work. Lynn Kellert, 31, and her husband Mitchell, 34, of New York City, who tried seven times at Norfolk before finally achieving pregnancy, figure the total cost was $80,000. Thus far, few insurance companies have been willing to foot the bill, arguing that IVF is still experimental. But, observes Grobstein of UCSD, "it's going to be increasingly difficult for them to maintain that position...
...embryos, federal grant money, which fuels 85% of bio-medical research in the U.S., has been denied to scientists in this field. So controversial is the issue that four successive Secretaries of Health and Human Services (formerly Health, Education and Welfare) have refused to deal with it. This summer, Norfolk's Hodgen resigned as chief of pregnancy research at the National Institutes of Health. He explained his frustration at a congressional hearing: "No mentor of young physicians and scientists beginning their academic careers in reproductive medicine can deny the central importance of IVF-embryo transfer research." In Hodgen's view...
...time or the freedom to apprentice themselves to the small number of American boatbuilders who work in wood. "I'd like nothing better than to take a year off and learn the trade," says Alan ("Dusty") Rhoades, a Navy lieutenant commander attached to Atlantic Fleet headquarters in Norfolk, Va. "But I've got a family to support, kids to put through college. I needed an alternative...
...Donald Hodges, 52, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Westport, Conn., in recent years has undergone surgery twice for cancer. Thanks to the Corporate Angels, on both occasions he was able to deliver his Sunday-morning sermon and still arrive at Leigh Memorial Hospital in Norfolk by Monday morning. Says Hodges: "I'm impressed by the fact that someone cares and is offering a helping hand." Concurs Harry Kass of Brooklyn, 23, who last April flew on an AT&T company plane from San Francisco to Morristown, N.J., following treatment for bone-marrow cancer: "It enabled...