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Talk about a panacea. Two years ago, doctors announced that daily doses of plain old inexpensive aspirin could significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks. Now the ubiquitous little pill that seems to be good for everything from headaches to menstrual cramps has done it again. Its new role: preventing strokes...
...acres since relocating its headquarters four years ago from Malibu, Calif. Responding to the warnings of CUT leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet, at least 2,000 of the faithful have arrived from Europe, South America and across the U.S. With stores in nearby Livingston reporting a run on dried food, aspirin and flashlights, hundreds of trucks were hauling supplies to 46 steel-and-concrete shelters dug deep into the mountain soil. The bunkers range in size from two-person containers to a vast subterranean hall designed for 756 people...
...huge research project included 22,071 volunteer subjects. And the main conclusion, published in 1988, was headline material: taking small doses of aspirin can reduce the risk of a heart attack. But women who read the fine print discovered that the study had little apparent relevance to them. Reason: not one of the 22,071 subjects was a woman. Admittedly, the overall risk of heart disease is greater in men, but after women reach menopause that difference in susceptibility largely disappears. Many older women would have been interested to know whether taking aspirin would improve their chances of avoiding...
...only bias of the aspirin study was not unusual. As an article in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association points out, medical research often appears to ignore women. In studies of everything from the link between smoking and cataracts to the benefits of eating fish after having heart attacks, the subjects have all been men. That concerns some medical experts and political leaders...
East Germany's decision to permit the mass departures was almost certainly occasioned by the approaching national anniversary. But the larger dilemma remains unresolved. New travel restrictions do not address the root causes of widespread popular disaffection in East Germany. "It's like taking an aspirin for a toothache," said a Western diplomat in Prague. "It may relieve the pain, but it won't fix the problem." As the rioting in Dresden made only too clear, the refugees who had the good luck to act are hardly the only ones who want out. In Leipzig, 10,000 East Germans marched...