Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also does his best to dispense free comfort and wisdom to both callers and listeners. His deep, mature, soothing and mellifluous upper-class English voice sounds like Harold Macmillan giving advice to Laertes. He is Fatherhood itself to women in trouble. He recently talked a 15-year-old pregnant child into waking up her parents and telling them the unfortunate news. "Whatever you do, ignore their first reaction," he advised her on the air. "Your father will be furious, but one day while he's shaving he'll tell his image in the mirror...
...drugs at all-will have an attack of thrombophlebitis. In a few of these cases, a blood clot from an inflamed leg or pelvic vein will travel to the lungs and cause serious illness or death. The danger that this will happen is known to be markedly greater in pregnant women...
...epidemic of malformed thalidomide babies became clear last week when Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony Celebrezze announced that thalidomide (U.S. trade name: Kevadon) had been given to 15,900 U.S. patients, including 3,200 of child-bearing age, at least 207 of whom are known to have been pregnant. Most of the 207 women have had their babies, and apparently they did not take thalidomide in the second month of their pregnancies when it would have been harmful. As yet, no malformations have been reported...
Abortion Journey. New York City reported the first U.S. death of a thalidomide-deformed baby. Psychiatrist Richard H. Hoffmann imported the pills by mail from a German drug house for one patient, then gave it to others. One of these became pregnant. Her baby, born a fortnight ago, was severely malformed and lived only 41 minutes...
...impose any rules, it would like to serve as a clearinghouse for information. In several countries there were moves to require, by law, that manufacturers do more testing in animals before they offer a new drug for the market. For any drug that might be taken by a pregnant woman, there will be emphasis on testing in pregnant animals of several species...