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Cryopreservation , Embryo, Mammalian , Legislation, Medical , Female , Fertilization in Vitro , Humans , MaleSubject(s)
Brain Death , Tissue Donors , Brain Stem , Death , Humans , Life Support Care , Persistent Vegetative State , Physicians , Value of LifeSubject(s)
Sudden Infant Death/epidemiology , Adult , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Recurrence , RiskSubject(s)
Bacteriuria/epidemiology , Adolescent , Bacteriuria/prevention & control , Chicago , Female , Humans , Male , Mass Screening , Poverty , Proteinuria/epidemiologySubject(s)
Congenital Abnormalities , Ethics, Medical , American Medical Association , Humans , Infant, Newborn , United StatesABSTRACT
In the Pose-Robbins School Health Project, 314 seventh grade students were screened for asymptomatic bacteriuria. A multiple dipstrip detection method was used for nitrite, glucose, and protein. Where one or more of the dipstrip tests was positive, urine cultures were performed on clean voided specimens. A child whose urine culture showed a colony count of greater than 100,000 colonies/ml was defined as having asymptomatic bacteriuria. Of the female students, 5.4 percent were found to have asymptomatic bacteriuria. None of the male students had asymptomatic bacteriuria. The percentage of schoolgirls in this age group who demonstrated infection was higher than previously reported. The school population screened in this study was from a poverty area disadvantaged according to most demographic parameters.
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Bacteriuria/epidemiology , Poverty Areas , Poverty , Adolescent , Bacteriuria/diagnosis , Child , Female , Humans , Illinois , MaleABSTRACT
A moratorium on in vitro fertilization would serve the society. The IVF issue is fraught with moral and legal problems surrounding the subject of IVF experimentation--the embryo--and the effect of this experimentation of individuals, families, and society.
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Bioethics , Fertilization in Vitro , Human Experimentation , Catholicism , Congenital Abnormalities/etiology , Embryo, Mammalian , Female , Humans , Infertility , Insemination, Artificial , Jurisprudence , Legislation, Medical , London , Male , Research Support as Topic , Risk , United StatesABSTRACT
PIP: E.F. Diamond questions the use of DES (Diethylstilbestrol) as a method of pregnancy prevention after rape because of the increased risks of vaginal cancer in women exposed to DES in vitro; the relationship to congenital anomalies and to endometrial carcinoma; and the actual number of pregnancies resulting from rape. According to Diamond, studies have shown that an insignificant number of pregnancies occur because of rape and to support this claim he cites a study conducted in Minnesota where 4,000 rapes resulted in 0 pregnancies. Diamond also assails the Catholic health care institutions which permit the use of DES as a postcoital contraceptive claiming that they are in actuality performing early abortion by medication.^ieng
