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Mailbag: Providing abortions is not a service
I was disappointed to see the letters in your mailbag section all held the same opinion — that Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian was wrong to ban abortions at its facility. I hope you will publish other opinions as well about this matter. I, for...Tags: Social Issues, Human Interest, Family Planning, Abortion, Women's Health
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Humor softens tale of infertility battle
On a bright morning in San Francisco, Holly Finn sits in a parking lot, her car swaying in the wind. Avoiding eye contact with passers-by, Finn shoots up. She shoots up hormones. Leuprolide Acetate, to be exact. "To prep my body for embryo transfer,...
Tags: In Vitro Fertilization
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Mailbag: As doctors, we oppose abortion ban
Re. "Commentary: Hoag is committed to women's health," (May 24): As obstetricians/gynecologists who admit patients to Hoag Hospital, we are compelled to respond to the commentary by Robert Braithwaite, Hoag CEO, and Gary McKitterick, chairman of the Hoag...Tags: Family, Social Issues, Hospitals and Clinics, Women's Health, Family Planning
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Infertility due to old eggs? An anti-aging pioneer ponders solutions
One of the many ways in which humans' evolved characteristics clash with a fast-changing post-industrial society can be seen in the female egg. Even before a woman passes the age of 30, the quality of the oocytes she carries begins a downturn in...
Tags: Science, Physical Conditions, Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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Wilmette school poised to claim Guinness record on twins
For those wondering which school might hold the world record for most twins in one grade, look no further than Highcrest Middle School in Wilmette. Highcrest has 23 sets of twins, representing about 10 percent of its fifth-grade class. That appears to...
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A Woman's First Mother's Day
Channel 2 NewsLeah Campbell's life has been quite the emotional roller coaster. When she was 25 years old, she decided to start a new life in Alaska. She wanted to start a family, so she drove up solo from San Diego. Doctors told her she'd be able to have children, but...Tags: In Vitro Fertilization, Mother's Day
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Plan B not as safe as you think
Apparently Steve Chapman (“Science, sex and birth control,” Columns, April 10) left one party out of his “We have two anti-science parties” theory: himself. Plan B and other morning after drugs have documented medical risks....Tags: Culture, Social Sciences, Prostate Cancer, Arts and Culture, Health Treatments
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Robert Edwards dies at 87; Nobel winner for first 'test-tube baby'
About 10% of married couples suffer from infertility – the inability to conceive a child naturally. Through the better part of the 20th century, physicians considered this a minor and perhaps irrelevant problem, one that contributed overall to...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Biology, Nobel Prize Awards, Values, Birth Defects
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It's what you're eating
If I had a television show, it would probably be called Mr. Odds instead of Dr. Oz. After teaching bands and playing trumpet, running an art center and convention bureau, hospitals and research institutes, I'm now flying all over the place consulting....Tags: Swiss Confederation, Tooth Decay, Lifestyle and Leisure, Mountains, Organic Foods
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It's What You're Eating, Dummy
If I had a television show, it would probably be called Mr. Odds instead of Dr. Oz. After teaching bands and playing trumpet, running an art center and convention bureau, hospitals and research institutes, I’m now flying all over the place...
Tags: Swiss Confederation, Tooth Decay, Lifestyle and Leisure, Mountains, Organic Foods
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Proposed law would govern surrogate births
When Whitney Watts of Columbia agreed to bear twins on behalf of an infertile Boston couple two years ago, she entered a murky area of Maryland law. Nothing forbade her from signing a contract to carry babies conceived through in vitro fertilization and...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Delores G. Kelley, Religion and Belief, Twins, Justice System
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Fort Meade VA Outpatient clinic advances effort to serve women veterans
When retired Master Sgt. Sheryl A. Webb left the U.S. Army in 1997, she was scarcely aware of services that U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals offered specifically for women. That was well before women became the fastest growing demographic group...
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Mammogram, Osteoporosis, Menopause, Internists
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