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...rewards and risks of raising a child with Down syndrome. Experience shows, however, that this rarely happens. All over the world, pregnancies are terminated immediately after a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, without the benefit of genetic counseling. No law can ever force parents to love their unborn child, but they should be obliged to listen to an expert for an hour or so in order to make a correctly informed decision about whether to carry a pregnancy to term. Every child deserves that chance, regardless of his or her genetic constitution. Wolfram Henn, M.D. Homburg-Saar, Germany...
...with GEORGE RALLIES. GEORGE BEST, whose genius on the soccer field?combined with his antics off it?made him a modern icon, held on that day. But last Friday he lost the final round to multiple organ failure after complications triggered by a lung infection, aged 59. Even generations unborn when he worked his soccer magic lamented the loss of a great sporting talent...
...tackle a subject the medical community had long abandoned: the stubbornly high child-mortality rate in the developing world. Abhay and Rani identified 18 causes of newborn death, from the obvious, like malnutrition, to the surprising, like the habit of expectant Gond mothers of starving themselves and their unborn child for an easier birth. The Bangs found no problems that couldn't be treated by a health worker with rudimentary skills, some infant sleeping bags and an abacus on which to record every 10 heartbeats...
...death in infants. “For most people, the risk from mercury by eating fish and shellfish is not a health concern,” states a March 2004 FDA report. “Yet, some fish and shellfish contain higher levels of mercury that may harm an unborn baby or young child’s developing nervous system.”But HMS Professor Emily Oken, who spearheaded the Environmental Health Perspectives study, said the risks of eating fish while pregnant must be weighed against the benefits. “Over the last few decades there?...
...descriptions of the overlooked wonders of the human body. An elbow, the parting of hair, the scent of an armpit—these details become objects of ecstatic worship or muted reverence. This exquisite poetry remains miraculously untainted by the surrounding grimy carnival of lust, corruption, and absurdity. Christopher Unborn anticipates a reader versed in the “Western canon” who will appreciate the novel’s continuous literary allusions and the periodic surfacings of a meta-textual subplot about authors and readers. It is an anarchic zoo of people, events, and opinions swarming...