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Even when the scarring is not severe enough to cause sterility, it can prove troublesome. It can cause a fertilized egg, normally implanted in the uterus, to become embedded and begin dividing in a fallopian tube, leading to a potentially life-threatening condition known as tubal or ectopic pregnancy. Since 1967 the incidence of ectopic pregnancy in the U.S. has tripled. According to Dr. King Holmes, chief of medicine at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, chlamydia may be a factor in at least one-quarter of the cases...
Name the most popular form of birth control in the U.S. No, not the Pill. According to a report issued last week by the National Center for Health Statistics, the Pill has been superseded by male and female sterilization. About 22% of women using contraception have had tubal ligations or hysterectomies, and 11% of men have had vasectomies. Only 29% of women using birth control rely on the Pill...
...DIED. Tubal Claude Ryan, 84, inventive aviation designer whose Ryan Airlines Inc. built Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in 60 days in 1927 for $15,000; in San Diego. A complete flying enthusiast, Ryan created and manufactured the first U.S. high-wing monoplane (the M-1), established the first regularly scheduled year-round passenger airline in the U.S., and ran an aeronautical school that trained more than 10,000 World War II pilots. During the Viet Nam War, he provided pilotless jet spy planes and pioneered the V/STOL, a vertical-and short-takeoff-and-landing plane...
...among physicians at three major medical teaching facilities, Boston City Hospital, Los Angeles County Hospital and Baltimore City Hospital. In the report, a Boston City Hospital resident said, "We like to do a hysterectomy, it's more of a challenge...you know a well-trained chimpanzee can do a tubal ligation...
...essentially the ones covered by these guidelines, don't have the intelligence to make a decision about sterilization while middle class women do?" Edlin said, adding that if a three month pregnant welfare mother with desperate financial problems came in tomorrow and begged for an abortion followed by a tubal ligation, according to existing guidelines, he couldn't perform the procedure. Such a woman, Edline says, would have to wait a month and risk a second-trimester abortion...