Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lost Composure. Students at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine follow pregnant women through delivery, providing pre-and postnatal care for them and their babies. M.D. candidates entering the University of Missouri's new medical school in Kansas City this fall made hospital rounds on their first day of classes. Visiting the overcrowded wards of Kansas City General Hospital, the 36 students timidly felt a swollen abdomen, saw a diabetic amputee, and stood in stunned silence around the bed of a patient who died as they were on their way to his room. The school...
...Pill and other birth control devices are available everywhere, but women still get pregnant without wanting to: too many people neglect precautions at precisely the wrong time or use them improperly. Therefore scientists continue to search for an effective next-day antidote to tonight's mistake. An experiment announced last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association gives strong evidence that such a pill is not only feasible, but that a woman can have up to 72 hours after intercourse to correct matters...
...Lucile Kuchera of the University of Michigan Health Service kept records on 1,000 women who had come to her since 1967. All of childbearing age, the women had had sexual intercourse in the couple of days before their visits but did not want to be pregnant. About 70% reported that coitus had taken place at a time in their menstrual cycle when conception was likely. Nearly 90% had used no contraceptive means, or said that the device used had failed to function properly...
Theoretically, there is a risk of unknown degree if a woman takes DES for contraception and if, for some reason, it fails and she becomes pregnant. However, the morning-after pill is given in far lower total dosage
...further studies to determine whether there is a cause-and-effect relationship. But the authors are not waiting until those studies are completed before issuing a warning about the newly recognized hazard. They have installed better air-filtering machinery in operating rooms at Stanford and suggested that physicians treating pregnant women avoid anaesthesia whenever possible...