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...screening test could accelerate that trend. Conducted as early as the 11th week of pregnancy, the test gives women more time either to prepare to raise a Down baby or to consider a less-risky first-trimester abortion. The test--which factors in the mother's age, a fetal ultrasound measurement and the levels of two pregnancy-related hormones--is about 87% accurate. An integrated test that combines results from first- and second-trimester screens is 96% accurate...
...family, the best insurance for parents in their old age is a son with the responsibility of taking care of them.” China’s adoption of the one-child policy in 1979 gave parents only one chance to bear that son. With the invention of ultrasound in the early ’80s, sex-selective abortions became possible for the first time, and many women pregnant with baby girls opted to abort them. Women who did not have access to abortions resorted to infanticide. This willingness to abort or kill a female, if necessary, prompted...
...next day, a radiologist is flown in from Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station in Puerto Rico, 600 miles away, to read the CT scan. The log reports, "No anomalies were found." Nonetheless, al-Qahtani is given an ultrasound for blood clots. For the first time since the log began, al-Qahtani is given an entire day to sleep. The next evening, the log reports that his medical "checks are all good." Al-Qahtani is "hooded, shackled and restrained in a litter" and transported back to Camp X-Ray in an ambulance...
Prepping the ER is a simple business; there is not much to get ready. Apart from their stethoscopes, the only diagnostic tool available to the surgeons is a Soviet-era X-ray machine. Ultrasound equipment? No. CT scans? No. MRI? No. There are two thoracic surgeons for chest wounds, the most common kind of injury in bomb blasts, but the hospital lacks the equipment needed to perform actual surgery. Pleas for funds and tools have been ignored by an Iraqi health ministry that doctors say is underfunded, mismanaged and corrupt. "There are days when we don't even have enough...
...issued several warnings over the past decade against the use of keepsake ultrasounds, and last year its consumer magazine went so far as to list an address readers could use to alert compliance officers whenever retail sonographers set up shop in their community. Since then, a few states, including California and Illinois, have proposed legislation banning such ultrasounds. In the meantime, says Copel, "physicians can do a fair amount to blunt the impact of these places." If provided with a blank videotape beforehand, his staff will happily pop it into the VCR and record the sonogram for posterity. Some...