Centers needed to study women's environmental health.

Centers needed to study women's environmental health.

The view of women as primarily fecund beings goes back to prehistory, where it is expressed in the well-known series of Venuses--stone figures of women with enlarged breasts, who are often represented as pregnant. Although the Venus figures date from the late Paleolithic era, this view of women did not change much in the next 20,000 years. With the approaching millennium, however, the field of ...

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

Environmental reform needed to decrease costs of health care.

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Two New Environmental Health Sciences Centers Funded

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES promise to revolutionize our ability to define and analyse the molecular components of tumour cell surfaces. To date these antibodies have been of mouse or rat origin. Here we report the production of human monoclonal antibodies by the fusion of intratumoral lymphocytes from a patient with a malignant glioma and a mouse myeloma line. Four such antibodies were found to bind...