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Word: postpartum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program, which includes all hospital charges for a six-day stay, has been set at $215 for students enrolled in the Student Insurance Plan and $235 for others. Officials of the Health Services point out that this rate compares very favorably with charges for other prenatal and postpartum care plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University to Begin Clinic in Obstetrics | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

...Women's emotional problems after childbirth-long dignified with the name "postpartum psychosis"-are not peculiar to this period and not necessarily the result of childbirth, reported psychiatrists of the New York Hospital's Westchester Division: they are essentially the same as problems that women may have at any time of life. If they happen to follow childbirth, it is because the difficulties of this period serve as "the last straw"-but any other stressful situation might have the same effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress Reports | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...Granirer has had 24 arthritics under treatment with postpartum plasma, half of them for two years. He has learned to cut the plasma dosage to 200 cc. and to reduce the number of treatments. Patients do not need to be hospitalized. The plasma takes longer (a month or two) than ACTH or cortisone to produce benefits. But the effects of the plasma, he believes, also last longer; relapses (which are often cruelly severe after hormone treatments) usually can be prevented by three or four transfusions a year. Best of all, says Dr. Granirer, he has not had a single case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nature's Way | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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