Word: stillborns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other families, health problems have been the chief concern. In 1985, Patti Frustaci of Orange, Calif., gave birth to septuplets; one was stillborn, and three died within 19 days. Cerebral palsy and retardation had been diagnosed by the time the three survivors reached age 3. Ultimately, the family won a $2.7 million settlement against the clinic and the doctor who prescribed fertility drugs for Frustaci. She came back for further treatments, however, and this time gave birth to robust twins. She has since left her family; the children are being raised by their father...
ELVIS: THE TWINLESS TWIN'S SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL MEANING Peter Whitmer, a clinical psychologist and author of the newly published The Inner Elvis (Hyperion; $22.95), argues that Elvis' stillborn twin brother Jesse played a critical and enduring role in the King's life. "Elvis' psychic raison d'etre as a twinless twin was to put himself back together again," says Whitmer. "That was really the power of his creativity--as well as the momentum behind his self-destructive downward spiral...
...Clinton Administration, which would prefer that the coming debate be stillborn, is readying a mushy response defending the current system's "dependability." Yet the possibility of partial privatization won't be ruled out peremptorily. (Clinton gets money from Wall Street...
Conjoined twins are a rare event in the world's delivery rooms. They occur about once in every 50,000 births, but 40% are stillborn, and, curiously, 70% are female. Conjoined twins are always identical: the product of a single egg that for some unknown reason failed to divide fully into separate twins during the first three weeks of gestation. In the U.S. there are perhaps 40 live cases each year; ordinary identical twins are 400 times as common...
...list goes on and on, running to more than 300 separate genetic disorders that subject dogs to enormous pain, roil the emotional life of their owners and, estimates Dr. William Schall, a genetic specialist at Michigan State University, cost almost $1 billion in vet bills and lost revenues from stillborn pups, which cannot be sold...