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  • Womb transplants (Women who lack a functioning womb could get replacement.)

    06/21/2006 3:47:43 PM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 16 replies · 999+ views
    News@Nature.com ^ | 21 June 2006 | Jo Marchant
    Womb transplants in humans should be possible within five years, say scientists in Sweden ... The procedure would allow women who have functioning ovaries but no womb to carry their own children, and the researchers say they have already been contacted by hundreds of women who are interested in having such a transplant. There are several reasons why a woman can lack a uterus. Some, with a condition called Rokitansky syndrome, are born without a vagina or a uterus. Others can lose their womb, for example through cervical cancer, or if the organ ruptures during childbirth. The only current way...
  • Women Sues After Doctor Carves 'UK' [Kentucky University Wildcats] On Her Uterus

    01/25/2003 10:42:42 AM PST · by ewing · 67 replies · 3,253+ views
    Local Kentucky News Channel 6.com ^ | January 25, 2003 SGT | Staff Report
    A woman claims her doctor braded the letters 'U' and 'K' into her uterus before removing it before a routine hysterectomy.The doctor is a University of Kentucky graduate. Stephanie Means and her husband David, filed the suit in Fayette County Circut Court. Means claimed that the doctor, who is from Lexington, used a cauterizing instrument to intentionally brand the 4 to 5 centimeter letters on her uterus.The doctor videotaped the operation and gave a copy to Means and her husband.The lawsuit says the tape clearly shows the doctor use a cautherizing instrument to carve the letters into her uterus.