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More than half a million U.S. women are unable to bear children because their Fallopian tubes have been blocked or damaged, usually by sexually transmitted infections. Yet the risk of tubal infertility can easily be reduced. How? By the use of so-called barrier contraceptives -- diaphragms, cervical caps and condoms -- which bar the passage of sperm into the uterus...
...American Medical Association by a team led by Gynecologist Daniel Cramer of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. After studying past contraceptive use by 283 childless women with tubal infertility and 3,833 new mothers, the researchers found that women who had used barrier contraceptives had 40% less risk of tubal infertility. The explanation, suggests one of the report's authors, Harvard Epidemiologist Marlene Goldman, is that these contraceptives prevent any germs carried in the semen from reaching the upper genital tract and causing pelvic inflammatory disease, the most common cause of tubal infertility. Concluded Willard Cates...
...think the issue with Hart is his mating habits. It's risk taking, it's throwing down the gauntlet to the press. There is a temptation on the part of the public to translate politics into morals. The public cannot handle intricate political issues. It can handle relatively clear questions: Is this guy honest? Is this guy moral...
...even when breast cancer is successfully treated, that success is often accompanied by permanent disfigurement and psychological damage. For all these reasons, women are particularly concerned about the causes as well as the treatment of breast cancer, and eager to learn anything they can about how to reduce their risk of contracting...
Unfortunately, only some risk factors, such as a high-fat diet, can be controlled. Many others -- age (over 50), for example, or a family history of the disease -- cannot. But evidence has been growing during the past several years that there may be one more factor women can do something about: the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Two studies published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine made that case even stronger...