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...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...
...mother was known on marquees around the world as Debbie Reynolds, the queen of spunky beauty from the '50s. Dad was Cool Daddy-o singer Eddie Fisher. "I was born of a golden womb," says Carrie. People like Lucille Ball and Jimmy Stewart used to come for dinner. Candice Bergen was always at their house because her best friend was the family baby-sitter. Unfortunately, father Eddie just barely had time to bequeath his eyes and voice to Carrie and sire her brother Todd before he gallivanted off with famous film fatale Elizabeth Taylor. The whole affair ended badly...
This peril to the West can be developed until the crowd swirling around the L.S.U. stadium feels that bastion of civilization is rocking on its base -- all from the output of one woman's womb...
Blake Schultz appeared to be doomed before he was even born. While he was in his mother's womb, a hole opened up in his diaphragm and allowed his stomach, spleen and intestines to press into his chest cavity and put pressure on his lungs. The grim prognosis: at birth, he would probably be unable to breathe...
Since the early 1980s, doctors have operated on fetuses, fixing urinary- tract blockages, for example, or inserting needles to drain excess fluid from the brain. But never before had physicians successfully performed such major surgery in the womb. Harrison hopes that his technique can be used to correct other potentially fatal problems, including large lung or spinal tumors and certain heart conditions. Several experts echoed that optimism. "We're in a whole new era of fetal treatment," said Dr. Eugene Pergament, head of reproductive genetics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...