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disorder. In 1955, deaths in the United States from Rh factor totaled about 2,400 while in 1965 the figured dropped to 1,500.
The expectation now is that the disease will be wiped out entirely in the foreseeable future. Recent studies in the United States, England and Germany have demonstrated that by treating an Rh-negative woman very soon after her first pregnancy with a specially prepared gamma globulin, which is obtained from blood, she can be prevented from producing antibodies that would attack the red blood cells of her next infant. This treatment should completely prevent Rh disease except among those women who have already been sensitized.
Another provocative step in research into birth defects, the field which The National Foundation-March of Dimes entered after its successful fight against polio, deals with what is now called “fetal medicine.” This means direct treatment of the developing infant within the womh before birth. Some proponents of fetal surgery predict
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