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...women. Most evidence indicates that women can take hormones for a couple of years without increasing their breast-cancer risk. The picture is less clear, however, for women who use hormones for 10, 20 or more years. Their chance of developing breast cancer increases, but does that outweigh the benefit of avoiding heart disease...
...younger students benefit tremendously," she said, adding that volunteers benefit from the "service-learning component...
Oddly, Choice Plus was not created in reaction to any bitter consumer backlash. Minnesota law requires all managed-care plans to be nonprofit, so there was no suspicion that patients were being shortchanged for the benefit of Wall Street. And 87% of the state's citizens tell pollsters they are satisfied with their medical care. But workers did grumble about cumbersome approval procedures, the need to change physicians whenever companies changed medical plans, and limited choices...
Franzen and the others may benefit from Wallace's success. The Twenty-Seventh City, Franzen's deft social-science fiction about a former Bombay police chief who plots to take over St. Louis, Missouri, first published in 1988, was recently released in paperback (Noonday Press; 517 pages...
...says this tragedy was due to a botched circumcision. What Americans need to know is that even a perfect circumcision causes harm. Medical studies report that circumcision removes a healthy, functioning part of the penis and causes overwhelming pain and trauma for the infant. There is no proven medical benefit from circumcision. Because of the lack of information, the U.S. is the only country that circumcises most of its male infants for nonreligious reasons. RONALD GOLDMAN, Executive Director Circumcision Resource Center Boston...