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...that moderate exercise can be crucial for postmenopausal women who want to lower their risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and some cancers. Not only does exercise promote good health overall but it also reduces intra-abdominal fat deposits--fat stored around the organs deep within the abdomen--that are a hidden risk factor for many chronic illnesses...
Giving people what they want, however, is not always a good idea in medicine. A significant number of women with a positive CA-125, explains Woolf, will need to have those results verified surgically--or by the insertion of a fiber-optic scope into the abdomen. Any surgical procedure carries a risk of serious complications, so offering the CA-125 screen to consumers is likely to increase the incidence of useless operations--and associated complications...
...Tarun Kumar Biswas and Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, who treated Monica over several months, say their patient indeed had a lump in her abdomen, but it was not a full-grown tumor. "She responded to our treatment steadily," says Mustafi. Monica's medical records contain sonograms, prescriptions and physicians' notes that could conceivably help prove whether science or the icon worked the cure. But the records are missing. Monica says Sister Betta of the Missionaries of Charity took them away two years ago. "It's all with her," says Monica. A call to Sister Betta, who has been reassigned to another...
...Tarun Kumar Biswas and Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, who treated Monica over several months, say their patient indeed had a lump in her abdomen, but it was not a full-grown tumor. "She responded to our treatment steadily," says Mustafi. Monica's medical records contain sonograms, prescriptions and physicians' notes that could conceivably help prove whether science or the icon worked the cure. But the records are missing. Monica says Sister Betta of the Missionaries of Charity took them away two years ago. "It's all with her," says Monica. A call to Sister Betta, who has been reassigned to another...
Turning 60 is darned awkward in America. We glorify carefree youth and feel sheepish if our abdomen is not hard enough to crack walnuts on and our heart is not warm and smiley. Geezers and geezerettes go around in juvenile clothes, shorts and flip-flops and jokey T shirts (my goal is to live forever. so far, so good). Embarrassing. A man my age should not aim for boyishness. He should wear an old tweed jacket and wool trousers and a silk vest with a great belly under it and have wild eyebrows the size of rats and carry...