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Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus and cervix.Supracervical hysterectomy refers to removal of the uterus while the cervix is spared. These procedures may also involve removal of the ovaries (oophorectomy), fallopian tubes (salpingectomy), and other surrounding structures.
Every year, over 400,000 people in the U.S. have hysterectomies. ... That’s because people who had the operation for common reasons such as heavy bleeding, pain, or fibroids “feel so much ...
Because of their small size, domesticated house cats pose little physical danger to adult humans. However, in the US cats inflict about 400,000 bites per year that result in emergency room visits, almost 90% of which may be bites from provoked animals. [23] This number represents about one in ten of all animal bites. [23]
Yet because it is used that way, I felt that an explanation here in which the usage is explained is warranted--people are coming here for basic info. Example: I've had women say to me that they've had two hysterectomies, and I've had to explain to them that it wasn't because of 2 uteruses, but because once was ovarian removal, once was uterine ...
By the age of 60, one in three women in the U.S. will have had their uterus removed.
In Buck v.Bell, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a majority opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. that a state statute that authorized compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
“For cats, primary humans are adored, and spare humans are to be tolerated,” says the very spare human in this video. But just because you are not a cat’s favorite person doesn’t mean you ...
Researchers at the University of Cornell Feline Health Center believe that "most zoonotic diseases pose minimal threat" to humans. However some humans are particularly at risk. These are people "with immature or weakened immune systems" (infants, the elderly, people undergoing cancer therapy, and individuals with acquired immunodeficiency ...