Rare Ectopic Pregnancy, again

In the last blog entry I detailed the story of Zahra Aboutalib, a Moroccan woman with a rare complication of an ectopic pregnancy, a lithopedion.  The second incredibly rare complication of an ectopic pregnancy that I will cover happened to an English woman named Jane Ingram.  Jane was a 32 year old woman living in [...]

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Rare Ectopic Pregnancy

Last night The Learning Channel replayed a program that I originally saw about a year ago entitled “Extraordinary Pregnancies.” It told the story of two women and their ‘extraordinary pregnancies’: Zahra in Morocco and Jane in England. The program is the repackaging of two other British programs that aired several years ago. [...]

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Sperm

Sperm may seem an odd choice of subject for a “young woman’s guide to gynecology and obstetrics.”  But it is this last word, obstetrics, that makes sperm a good choice for an entry subject.  Arguably, without sperm, obstetrics would not exist.   This may not always be the case, but for the time being, each human [...]

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Quick Update

I live! Yes, I have been absenting myself from the blog, but for a good reason. I needed to concentrate on school until the end of the semester. I am within hours of finishing this semester, and had planned to return with a bang. Yet, I saw this article just now [...]

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