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...while the subways are not filled with homicidal maniacs, too many commuters are revoltingly insensitive. I have seen young businessmen sit and casually read the Wall Street Journal instead of giving up their seats to accommodate mothers struggling to carry a crying infant and three bags of groceries, or pregnant women who are standing...
...first to benefit from the new techniques were Jim and Sarah Redington, of Hot Springs, Virginia. By 1994, after eight years of waiting, they had nearly given up hope of having a second child. Jim, a family physician, was treated for testicular cancer in 1985 while Sarah was pregnant with their daughter Rebecca. He could no longer produce sperm, and the samples he had stored at a sperm bank before his cancer treatment had failed to make Sarah pregnant again. Not even the in vitro process resulted in conception. "The doctor said it didn't work and never would," recalls...
...frozen eggs raises ethical questions, particularly since it presents the possibility of lifting nature's age limit on motherhood. A young woman, for instance, might wish to have some eggs frozen, in case she chooses to become pregnant later in life. For most women past 35, fertility declines sharply, simply because their eggs have become too old to be viable. But their bodies can still sustain a pregnancy, and many could give birth if they could just get access to healthy eggs. Until now the only option has been to use an egg from a younger donor, but some...
...rheumatoid arthritis, a condition in which the body's immune system erodes the cartilage and bone near joints. While doctors still do not know why the body turns against itself, they are exploring some promising prospects for relief. One involves mimicking the activity that dampens the immune system in pregnant women, allowing their bodies to adjust to the presence of the foreign fetus. Some doctors believe repeated vaccinations of properly prepared foreign cells will curb the immune reaction enough to hinder the inflammation of arthritis. Other researchers are genetically engineering cells to inject directly into knuckles, above, where they...
Double baby-shower time: singer Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher, her lover, are to be mothers. Cypher is four months pregnant, but the two women are mum on how the baby was conceived. It's probably a safe bet that the dad isn't Lou Diamond Phillips, who was Cypher's husband when she met Etheridge. "Love comes in surprising packages," Cypher told a reporter...