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...Doctors are constantly searching for new ways of diagnosing cancers early, before the tumors spread so that effective treatment is difficult. Dr. Richard Sternheimer, 74, a pathologist at Chicago's Michael Reese Medical Center, has now developed a staining technique that screens cells in the urine. Because urine is formed by the kidneys and passes through the ureters, bladder, urethra and, in males, the prostate gland before it is excreted, it contains cells sloughed off from all of these organs. To determine if any of those cells are cancerous, Sternheimer stains them with two dyes: a blue coloring that...
...implicit in any abortion; the prosecution charged that abortion means only the termination of pregnancy and does not necessarily imply the death of the fetus as well. Conflicting evidence was presented on whether the fetus involved in the specific abortion was viable. Dr. John B. Ward, a Pittsburgh pathologist, testified for the prosecution that his postmortem examination had revealed that the fetus had breathed and that the unborn infant, which weighed 700 grams (1 lb. 8 oz.), could have survived. Defense witnesses said that the fetus had not in fact breathed; on Edelin's behalf, some medical experts testified...
...Pittsburgh University-educated pathologist also testified that the fetus died 26 weeks after it was conceived. The prosecution claims that the fetus was between 24 and 28 weeks old and could have lived if delivered at the time of the hysterotomy...
Homans objected to this testimony by Ward because he said that a pathologist is not qualified to give expert evidence on matters involving obstetrics and gynecology. He was overruled...
Homans showed that a table of "crown to heel," or head to toe, fetal measurement that the pathologist had testified was to be found in a certain scientific paper could not in fact be found there. That paper did include a correlation of "crown to rump" fetal measurement with certain fetal ages...