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Those who will be given priority when flu shots become available Thursday include people over the age of 65, infants between the ages of 6 and 23 months, pregnant women and those with underlying chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, cancer or lung problems...
DIED. KATHARINA DALTON, 87, British gynecologist and early expert on premenstrual syndrome; in Poole, England. She began studying the connection between the menstrual cycle and behavioral swings when, as a pregnant medical student, she noticed that her premenstrual migraines had subsided. She gave the syndrome its name and treated sufferers with progesterone therapy, a regimen that was later rejected by most doctors...
...town of Ablieh had been raped and dozens of people killed, including two of her sons, four of her in-laws and her husband. The only survivors in her compound were Abdulkarim and her son Mohammed, 6. "They also wanted to kill me, but when they saw I was pregnant, they released me and let me live," she says. That was eight months ago. Sheltering in a refugee camp in neighboring Chad, Abdulkarim, her baby Mustafa playing in her lap, says she will never go home...
...record for most footnotes in a legal article, once attempted to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica but quit in the B's. But even more important to Jacobs' emotional maturation than one-upping his dad is dealing with the tension of failing, over and over, to get his wife pregnant. Although, really, you don't expect a guy who goes to the Britannica headquarters in Chicago to report two errors to have boys that swim really fast...
...child born from ovarian tissue that was removed from her mother, frozen and transplanted back. The tissue was taken out when her mom was 25 and facing chemotherapy for cancer. Six years later, cancer free but infertile from the drugs, she had the tissue stitched back in--and got pregnant by natural means four months later. The breakthrough raises hope for the thousands of women who face sterilization each year from cancer treatments. If the procedure proves safe enough--a big if--it might also offer an option to healthy women who want to extend their fertile years a little...