Word: toxemia
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...they end?we know they will end in Vietnam, America's ultimate repository of innocence lost?but because of how they began. For Kerrey's family (as for most Americans), the years before World War II were anything but golden; they were a time when mothers died of toxemia after pregnancy, when families drifted across the Midwest in search of a good job?any job?and men thought themselves lucky to get $30 a month from the Civilian Conservation Corps. Kerrey reminds us of something that too many histories of the 1950s overlook: for those who lived through those sunny...
...Toxemia, as the condition is more commonly known, is the forerunner of eclampsia, in which women fall victim to convulsive seizures near the end of pregnancy. Left untreated, such seizures can lead to death in preeclampsia's victims, who are usually very young mothers or older mothers aged...
Meanwhile, a study in the Lancet appears to strengthen another suspected breast-cancer link. Women whose mothers had toxemia during pregnancy (a form of high blood pressure that can also lower estrogen levels) are 75% less likely to get breast cancer as adults. High estrogen levels, in other words, are still a danger signal...
...next day, as John, Lesley and Louise Brown posed for pictures, Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards spoke openly about their achievement for the first time. At a press conference, Steptoe explained that the baby was delivered early by caesarean section because Lesley Brown had developed toxemia, a disorder of pregnancy usually associated with hypertension that can lead to stillbirth. The delivery was uneventful. Said Steptoe of Louise: "She came out crying her head off . . . a beautiful, normal baby...
...child have led to sequential applications of the device from about the 18th week of pregnancy onward. For the mother, says Heyns, decompression sessions encourage painless uterine contractions that may enhance pre-and postnatal development in the child. Evidence also indicates that the technique lowers the incidence of toxemia-a largely unexplained complication of pregnancy, which can be serious...