BACKGROUND A WOMAN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE OFTEN HARBORS A SMALL NUMBER OF FOREIGN CELLS, REFERRED TO AS MICROCHIMERISM: a preexisting population of cells acquired during fetal life from her own mother, and newly acquired populations from her pregnancies. An intriguing question is whether the population of cells from her own mother can influence either maternal health during pregnancy and/or the ne...

A previously untreated 25-year-old female graduate student with masochistic traits but no axis I or II disorder entered twice-weekly psychodynamic psychotherapy with a stated goal of ending an abusive romantic relationship with a colleague. In the early months, sessions were filled with the patient’s childhood memories of emotional mistreatment by her parents, whose constant fighting left her f...

This first report of recurrent multiple inflammatory fibroid polyps occurred in three generations of a Devon family; in the grandmother first at the age of 59 years, in the mother first at the age of 35 years, both in Tiverton, and in the granddaughter first at the age of 22 years, three years after emigrating to New Zealand. Only one female in each generation has been affected, in a direct lin...

n the spring of 2007, just weeks before my college graduation , my parents called to tell me that my grandmother was sick. I was worried to hear that she was in the hospital, but like the rest of my family, I had little doubt that she'd be better in no time. At a spry 82 years, my grandmother was the picture of health. She was a nonsmoker, a nondrinker, and had had no medical problems except fo...

The article is devoted to the modeling of linguistic personality generalized type midwife, who takes an active part in all rituals Ukrainian rite childbirth. In ritual discourse, this woman reflects norms ethnic culture. purpose our research was analyze collective midwife on ethnographic materials and folk songs that accompanied object cultural woman, took antenatal post partum rituals, as well...