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...cancer in daughters born to those women, and more recently have also implicated it in genital abnormalities and infertility in sons. Now there is more unsettling news for DES daughters. When they reach childbearing age, they appear to be more vulnerable than others to miscarriage-as well as to stillbirth, premature birth and ectopic pregnancy (in which the fetus grows outside the uterus). Dr. Ann Barnes of Massachusetts General Hospital studied 1,236 women, half of them DES daughters. She reports in the New England Journal of Medicine that the risk of not achieving a full-term birth...
...time, French Author-Diplomat Romain Gary, she sued the three periodicals, winning a token out-of-court settlement and a public apology. Last week Gary insisted that the child had been his and that the false reports had made "Jean become psychotic. Every year on the anniversary of this stillbirth she has tried to take her own life." He blamed the incident for her psychiatric treatment and, ultimately, her death...
...eating fish. At the top of the food chain, fish can accumulate chemicals at up to 300 times the level in surrounding waters. If you eat fish regularly, chances are you've swallowed more than your share of the chemical PCB. Non-biodegradable, carcinogenic and shown to cause stillbirth, numbness in limbs and bone deformities, PCBs have been found in over 90 per cent of all Americans. Leaking from unprotected industrial dumps, gushing from factory pipelines and pouring out of the tank trucks of illegal dumpers, PCBs have permeated more places and people than DDT ever reached. The chemical...
...pictures, Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards spoke openly about their achievement for the first time. At a press conference, Steptoe explained that the baby was delivered early by caesarean section because Lesley Brown had developed toxemia, a disorder of pregnancy usually associated with hypertension that can lead to stillbirth. The delivery was uneventful. Said Steptoe of Louise: "She came out crying her head off . . . a beautiful, normal baby...
...puts on his show, the masquerades are expert and funny enough to let straights see the bent world in a way that will not threaten most of them. Normal householders walk out of the theater snuffling happily after his exit line. Liza, who has fled to Manhattan following the stillbirth, is acting like a zombie. She says she is dead in side. "You are not dead!" says Robin, as the music rises. "You're alive and sick and living in New York just like 8 million others." The little splashes at this point are tears...