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The rights of women.

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Jurisprudence

Relationship between heart weight and the cross sectional area of the coronary ostia.

Sex variation in the area of the coronary ostia was studied in hearts with a normal weight (heart weight less than 400 g) and hypertrophic hearts (heart weight greater than or equal to 400 g). Also studied was a possible sex difference in the correlation between heart weight and the area of the coronary ostia. The study was performed on 379 post mortem hearts. In the group of hearts with a normal weight the area of the left coronary ostium in both sexes was greater than the right but the difference was statistically insignificant. There was no sex difference in the area of the left coronary ostium, whereas the area of the right coronary ostium was statistically significantly less in women. In the group of hyperthopic hearts the left coronary ostium increased in area with increasing heart weight. The difference in the area of the left coronary ostium between hearts with normal weight and hypertrophic hearts was stastically significant in men, but not in women. The right coronary ostium showed minimal increase in size with increasing heart weight and the difference in both sexes between the two groups was statistically insignificant. In the group of hypertrophic hearts the heart weight was best correlated to the area of the left coronary ostium in both sexes, but the values did not reach statistically significance. On the basis of this study the area of the right coronary ostium appears to be a bottleneck with regard to an adequate blood supply to a hypertrophic myocardium.

Adult

Breast cancer in Israel: laterality and survival.

Laterality was examined in 10,702 cases of breast cancer in Israeli Jewish women. The overall left-right ratio was 1.04 and was higher in women over 60. The only population group with a left-right ratio less than 1 was the group of women born in Asian and Middle Eastern countries outside of Israel. There were no differences between the survival curves of women with right- or left-sided breast cancers at any stage. It is concluded that laterality of tumor is not an indicator of survival in breast cancer.

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Attitudes toward women and orientation to seeking professional psychological help.

Studied the relationship between attitudes toward the rights and proper roles of women in society and attitudes toward seeking professional help for emotional problems in a sample of 80 college students. Liberal attitudes toward women were associated with positive help-seeking attitudes in men and women, contrary to predictions based on prior research and on feminist criticisms of the mental health profession. No sex difference in attitudes toward help-seeking was found; however, the attitudes toward women variable appears to be at least as good a predictor of actual help-seeking as a person's attitude toward help-seeking, within the sample studied.

Adolescent

[Otological symptoms due to disturbances of the major extracranial arteries (author's transl)].

127 patients with pulseless disease were compared with normal persons of the same age group, localization and distribution of the occlusions, risk factors and complaints were analysed. Pulseless disease occurs predominantly in elderly men. In all patients, occlusions were found more often in the left supraaortic branches than in the right side. In men, stenosis of the left subclavian artery, in women stenosis of the right carotid artery is found most frequently. In most cases only one aortic branch was diseased. Vertigo, tinnitus and deafness was encountered in 32 patients (25.20%) but only in 3 persons of the control group (2.36%). In 29 of these 32 patients uni- or bilateral stenosis of the carotid artery was present. In the cases with unilateral stenosis (16) tinnitus and deafness could be localized to the respective side. In the other cases an isolated stenosis of the subclavian artery was found. In the 32 patients with otogenic symptoms hypertension was the risk factor number 1. Early diagnosis by only auscultation and palpation as well as medical treatment is pointed out.

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On being equal.

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Australia

Self-ownership, abortion and infanticide.

Doctors have been placed in an anomalous position by abortion laws which sanction the termination of a fetus while in a woman's womb, yet call it murder when a physician attempts to end the life of a fetus which has somehow survived such a procedure. This predicament, the doctors' dilemma, can be resolved by adopting a strategy which posits the right to ownership of one's own body for human beings. Such an approach will generate a consistent policy prescription, one that sanctions the right of all pregnant women to abortions, yet grants the fetus, after it becomes viable as a potentially independent person, a right to its own body. The doctors' dilemma is surmounted, then, by requiring that abortions of viable fetuses be performed in a manner that will produce a live delivery. Hence, infanticide and termination of viable fetuses are proscribed.

Aborted Fetus