Nicholas Kristof

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April 11, 2012
Wash. U. OB/Gyn Lewis Wall Finally Builds Women's Hospital in Niger
One of the nastiest side-effects of a difficult childbirth is the fistula, when an infant gets jammed so tightly in the birth canal that it cuts off the flow of blood to surrounding organs. Eventually the flesh rots away, leaving a hole, from which things -- piss, shit, menstrual blood -- leak. You ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
Half the Sky, All the Hope
One of the nastiest side-effects of a difficult childbirth is the fistula, when an infant gets jammed so tightly in the birth canal that it cuts off the flow of blood to surrounding organs. Eventually the flesh rots away, leaving a hole, from which things -- piss, shit, menstrual blood -- leak. You ... More >>
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November 2, 2009
Wash U. Doctor Featured in NY Times as Savior to Women with Awful Vaginal Injury
obgyn.wustl.eduWe shall let the New York Times' international wanderer-columnist Nicholas D. Kristof open this blog post with a description of obstetric fistula, a truly grotesque condition suffered by women mostly in the global south. Such a woman, writes Kristof,suffers obstructed labor, has no ... More >>

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