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Jennifer E. Hoffman '99 says she also received treatment above and beyond what she felt was necessary for her condition. Hoffman says she once went into UHS with the stomach flu and ended up being hooked up to an intravenous tube for dehydration...
...they were delivered, each infant--Kenneth Robert (a.k.a. Hercules), then Alexis May, Natalie Sue, Kelsey Ann, Brandon James, Nathan Roy and, finally, Joel Steven--was taken to an adjacent room, placed on a warmer bed and given a ventilator tube and an intravenous line; then each was moved to the intensive care unit at the Blank Hospital. All the babies were initially listed in serious condition, which is actually better than expected, considering they were 10 weeks premature. Joel was briefly downgraded to critical on Wednesday because of blood loss. But by evening he had rebounded...
...wonder. Doctors have been trying for centuries to improve on nature's way of perpetuating the human species. The first successful artificial insemination took place during the presidency of George Washington. And since 1978, when the world's first test-tube baby was born, researchers have assembled a battery of medicines and high-tech procedures that have utterly transformed the treatment of infertility. More than 33,000 babies have been born in the U.S. thanks to in-vitro (literally, "in glass") fertilization, or IVF--nearly 7,000 in 1994 alone, the most recent year for which numbers are available...
...freezing is just one of the fertility breakthroughs that are moving through the pipeline from lab to clinic. Doctors are removing and cold-storing ovarian and testicular tissue for later reimplantation, coaxing test-tube embryos to grow stronger before they are put into the womb, even performing microscopic surgery to transfer chromosomes from old, worn-out eggs into young, robust ones. All these techniques have a single purpose: to beat the odds nature has stacked against a woman's ability to bear children...
Toothpaste is pretty damn unsanitary. I realized this with a new vengeance recently while brushing my teeth. Bleary-eyed and half-asleep, I had squirted too much of the stuff onto my toothbrush and found myself trying to scrape the excess back into the tube. I awoke with a start when I saw what I was doing. All those nasty little microbes, exfoliated off each toothbrush with painful accuracy back onto the tube for the next user...