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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Wake-Up Call | 5/13/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jay Leno: Midnight's Mayor | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIABILITY: Telltale Memo About an IUD | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chlamydia: the Silent Epidemic | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chlamydia: the Silent Epidemic | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

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