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...chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. "This is not a one-size-fits-all approach," he says. The first-trimester screening carries a high risk of false positives for older women, so a woman who has struggled for years to get pregnant and wishes to avoid the risks of a follow-up amnio might opt for the fully integrated test, even though that means waiting until the second trimester. For many others, speed is the priority. Dr. Malone hopes the study "will finally do away with the entirely arbitrary idea that women...
...Melbourne's Rebekah Beddoe had just landed a good job in a computer company when, in late 1998, she found out she was pregnant. While the news threw her, her boss helped out by granting her a stint of maternity leave that she wasn't strictly entitled to. "Things were looking fantastic at that point," she says. She figured she'd spend six months at home, put her baby in daycare, and get back to work. But soon after Jemima's birth, "I realized I'd been living in a dream world." Jemima cried constantly and screamed in caf?s when...
...them.” China’s adoption of the one-child policy in 1979 gave parents only one chance to bear that son. With the invention of ultrasound in the early ’80s, sex-selective abortions became possible for the first time, and many women pregnant with baby girls opted to abort them. Women who did not have access to abortions resorted to infanticide. This willingness to abort or kill a female, if necessary, prompted the gender gap to grow. “In general, there is a lot of confusion in the world about whether...
...Keely and Du. No play was more topical than pseudonymous Jane Martin's what-if about right- to-life extremists kidnapping a pregnant woman and holding her until it is too late to abort. The Actors Theatre of Louisville production, also seen at Hartford Stage, subtly traced the evolving bond between the streetwise captive (Julie Boyd) and a captor (a superb Anne Pitoniak...
Human Radiation Experiments The Department of Energy said last week that 750 poor women who went to Vanderbilt University for free prenatal care in the 1940s were fed radioactive pills as part of a government experiment to study the absorption of iron among pregnant women. The tests are blamed for the cancer deaths of at least three children born to these women. It is not yet known whether the subjects were told what was in the pills...