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...dormant for long periods of time, all the while doing extensive damage to the reproductive system. According to the Centers for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/chlamydia_facts.htm) "Untreated, chlamydia can cause severe costly reproductive and other health problems.... Up to 40 percent of women with untreated chlamydia will develop PID [pelvic inflammatory disease]. ... Of those with PID, 20 percent will become infertile; 18 percent will experience debilitating chronic pelvic pain; and 9 percent will have a life-threatening tubal pregnancy [which] is the leading cause of first-trimester, pregnancy-related deaths in American women.... In addition, recent research has shown that women...
...Leno. "I was never angry," he says. "I could never relate to comedians like Lenny Bruce." But beneath Leno's "What, me worry?" exterior, there does lurk a subterranean anger. "It's so stupid," he says, uttering this phrase perhaps 20 times a day, pronouncing the word "stew-pid." He sees a newspaper ad describing a knife as "perfect for a night out on the town." He shakes his head. "It's so stew-pid." Small-mindedness irks him; he can tolerate anything but intolerance. "It's so stew-pid. I mean, racism and prejudice are just bad business...
...documents released by court order suggest that the company knew of physicians' safety concerns about the Copper-7 but kept on selling it. In a 1980 memo, a Searle doctor warned company officials that "all studies with which I am familiar conclude that all IUDs enhance the potential for PID...
...people have ever heard of: chlamydia. This disease, named for the tiny bacterium (Chlamydia trachomatis) that causes it, strikes between 3 million and 10 million Americans each year. The bug is also a hidden agent in as many as one out of every two cases of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), a painful, sometimes sterilizing infection that affects about 1 million American women each year. Chlamydia, like herpes, is rapidly becoming the bane of the middle class; up to 10% of all college students are afflicted with it. Says Dr. Mary Guinan of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta...
...results of diagnostic tests are in. For example, because 40% of women and 20% of men with gonorrhea also have chlamydia, the CDC's Cates recommends that anyone with a confirmed case of gonorrhea be treated for chlamydia as well. Schachter suggests the same policy for women with PID. "You can't just sit around and wait for a lab diagnosis," he says. "The patient could wind up sterile...