Word: uteruses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other report issued last week focuses attention on the Fallopian tubes, the narrow passages that carry eggs from the ovaries to the uterus. Women whose tubes are clogged with scar tissue or other obstructions cannot conceive by natural means because their eggs have no way of getting to the womb. In the past, such women had to undergo surgery to have their tubes cleared. Now the problem can be overcome in a doctor's office, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. With a tiny balloon similar to those used to clear blocked arteries, scientists...
Johnson, however, is biologically unrelated to the Calverts' baby, who was conceived by joining Mark's sperm and Crispina's egg in a Petri dish. (Crispina was unable to carry a baby because of a partial hysterectomy.) The fertilized embryo was implanted in Johnson's uterus last January...
Judged simply on efficacy and safety, RU 486 marks a major advancement over other pregnancy-ending techniques. The drug, which is most effective if used within seven weeks of conception, prevents the hormone progesterone from being absorbed by the lining of the uterus. Without that nourishment the uterus cannot support the growth of the embedded fertilized egg, and the woman miscarries. Taken with prostaglandin, a naturally occurring substance that causes mild uterine contractions, the drug is 95% effective. Developed in 1982 by Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, RU 486 has so far been used by an estimated 55,000 women...
...impressive achievement yet in the young field of fetal surgery, was performed by Dr. Michael Harrison and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco and reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Seven weeks before Blake was born, the doctors cut into his mother's uterus and partly removed the fetus. Then they opened his left side, patched the hole in his diaphragm and put his organs back in the right places...