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| July 01, 2001 | CALIFANO, JULIA | COPYRIGHT 2001 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

You have a common, perfectly benign variation in your reproductive anatomy, says Mary Jane Minkin, M.D., a clinical professor of OB--GYN at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Normally, the upper part of the uterus leans slightly forward, toward the bladder, but in about 30 percent of women in the United States, the top of the uterus tilts backward ...

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