Word: womb
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MOST KIDS STAY IN THE WOMB FOR 388,800 MINUTES / JAY-Z, GRAMMY WINNER FOR BEST RAP SONG, HUNG OUT AT THE CRAMMYS FOR O MINUTES / DARTMOUTH'S GREEK SYSTEM HAS BEEN SINGLE SEX FOR 81,907,200 MINUTES / ST. PATTY'S DAY WILL BRING THE LUCK OF THE IRISH IN 18,720 MINUTES / AVERAGE WAIT AT HARVARD SQUARE'S CHILI'S GRILL & BAR, SATURDAY, 6:45 P.M. 25 MINUTES / TIME IT TAKES TO WATCH "200 CIGARETTES" 97 MINUTES / APPROXIMATE TIME TO SMOKE 200 CIGARETTES 800 MINUTES / ABANDONED LANDMINES KILL OR INJURE ONE PERSON EVERY 20 MINUTES / MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL...
...Connaught hospital, doctors began reporting last April that they were seeing an enormous number of mutilations, as well as women who had had foreign objects inserted in their vagina. Aid workers say pregnant women, normally highly respected and well treated in Africa, had had fetuses cut from the womb while they were still alive. Rebel soldiers slashed one woman's ankles so she could not run away. She was raped and beaten over a one-month period...
...called serum-alpha-fetoprotein testing to seek out telltale proteins that may indicate spina bifida, neural-tube defects or Down syndrome--or looking directly at the fetus with ultrasound scans. For women over 35, doctors usually recommend more invasive procedures in which actual fetal cells are gathered from the womb's amniotic fluid (amniocentesis) or placenta (chorionic villus sampling...
...helped to reduce more than 95% the number of Tay-Sachs births among American Jews of East European descent, a high-risk group. As a result of early identification, a few congenital conditions, such as spina bifida, a disabling hole in the spinal cord, are being treated in the womb by experimental surgery at about seven months. Sex-selection techniques based on in-vitro fertilization can reduce the risk of giving birth to a baby with sex-linked disorders, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and hemophilia, which affect only males...
French Anderson, ever pushing the envelope, last September asked the National Institutes of Health to begin considering gene therapy in the womb for fetuses found to be afflicted with a hemoglobin deficiency that would kill them before birth and for fetuses with ADA deficiency, the "bubble boy" disorder he treated in his pioneering 1990 trial...