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There are some metaphysically meaty differences between the sexes, but they're not easy to rate in terms of which sex should rule. Females, as you can tell at a glance, have the more sociable anatomy, including a uterus that fluffs itself up every month in hopes of housing a baby, and a pair of spigots on the chest at which Baby eventually may dine. The surprising thing is that women are the more communistic sex, right down to the cellular level. Fetal cells derived from a woman's offspring may survive in her bloodstream decades after childbirth. What...
ANOTHER REASON TO QUIT Especially for moms-to-be. A major study warns that smoking during pregnancy--even in moderate amounts--can increase the odds of miscarriage 80%. Cocaine also puts a fetus in the danger zone: it raises miscarriage risk 40%. Both habits reduce blood flow to the uterus--and are of course unhealthy in other ways...
...major risk of a trial of labor after caesarean delivery is that uterus may rupture during labor, which may result in substantial hemorrhage and require hysterectomy," the article said...
...adults. In fact, whenever health experts track cases by age, they find that about half of all chlamydia cases occur in girls ages 15 to 19. Reason: the younger the woman, the more vulnerable to infection is her cervix, the ring of tissue that protects the opening to her uterus. In addition, chlamydia often infects silently, with few or no initial symptoms. Although it is easily cured with antibiotics, the longer it remains undetected and untreated, the more likely it is to cause extensive internal scarring. The disease, after months or years, can lead to an excruciatingly painful condition called...
...didn't take long for the backlash to begin. Breast-cancer support groups weighed in almost at once. Why, they asked, would an otherwise healthy woman want to take a drug that can cause birth defects, trigger blood clots and double her chance of getting cancer of the uterus? Some questioned the drug's value even for the 29 million American women whose chances of getting breast cancer are, like Helene Wilson's, significantly higher than the 1-in-9 national average. Tamoxifen is already approved as a breast-cancer treatment, so physicians can prescribe it for prevention as well...