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...also produce pain, bloating and sharp mood swings. Every day she undergoes tedious blood tests and ultrasound examinations: the doctors need to monitor the ovaries closely and remove the eggs at just the right time so they can be fertilized in the lab and then returned to the womb. Despite the hardships, infertile couples went through the costly, complex procedure 40,000 times last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fertility with Less Fuss | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...produces a joyful child who is a delight from his first moments. The monster's birth, however, is an awkward torment. The doctor/father/mother/creator wrestles with a newborn twice his size in a bath of amniotic fluids. The child attempts to kill his mother immediately on emerging from his copper womb, struggling to use his malformed limbs and decaying mind in an act of revenge...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: The Modern PROMETHEU | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

...antibodies produced in the mother's blood have moved to the child during pregnancy. But the implications are grim: the mother is infected with the virus for sure, and there is a 25% chance that the child picked up not just antibodies but the virus itself while in the womb or during delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moms, Kids and AIDS | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...four children born to women who harbor the AIDS virus becomes infected while still in the womb. However, a federally funded study has shown ; that mothers who take AZT after their 14th week of pregnancy reduce to 8% the risk of transmitting the virus to their babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Mar. 7, 1994 | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...conjures ideas of our moment of birth, and the first moments of experiencing light. Light is burgeoning, not dimming. This work follows Blanks (1990-1), three glass disks of translucent pearl blue. The reflective nature of the work encloses the image of the viewer's body in an ethereal womb. So the transition from Blanks to Lid represents the moment of birth thrusting the viewer into a new world of light. The final work, Imagination Dead Imagine (1991) does not belong in the show because it does not create the excitement of renewal and epiphany that the pieces...

Author: By Mark Roybal, | Title: Ward's Illuminating Vision Burns Bright | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

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