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Rumors abounded last week that Tom Cruise wanted to hoover his newborn’s afterbirth. After our gossip sources ruefully reported the story was a “joke,” FM turned to a Harvard Medical School professor to determine whether Maverick was missing...
Technicians drain the afterbirth of its blood and process the material to concentrate the stem cells. Theoretically, stem cells can rebuild the body's bloodmaking machinery so that it produces the full array of effective blood cells the body needs to defend itself against germs, close wounds and transport oxygen. Scientists speculate that cord stem cells are more adaptable and will transplant more successfully, even in patients with imperfect biological matches, than stem cells harvested from adult bone-marrow donors...
There are many ways to kill baby girls. Feeding them poisonous oleander berries, smothering them in their afterbirth or just not feeding them are among the ancient methods still in use in some rural parts of Asia, where baby boys have always been preferred. Nowadays technology also plays a role: fetal testing procedures, such as amniocentesis and sonograms, are employed by women in China, Korea, India and elsewhere to detect the sex of a fetus. Many mothers will abort a female. "Over the past century science has only quickened the pace of the death of the female child, from...
...long as there have been people, people have thought about death. Less is known about the after death then, say, the afterbirth, but this has not discouraged universal speculation on the subject...
...control of England's future. "I was torn from you by the midwife," the adolescent John cries out at this mother, "and I haven't seen you since." "Yes," chimes in sullen Richard, his rival for the throne, "blame the midwife. She threw out the baby and kept the afterbirth...