Word: breast
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...There's a job here for every man, woman and baby at the breast," says Pastor Daniel Stack of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church...
Most voters like what they have seen coming from Washington in recent years: legislation that lets people keep their health benefits when they change jobs; that spends $24 billion to provide medical care to uninsured children; that requires Medicare to cover preventive screening for breast cancer, colon cancer and osteoporosis. The fact that at least two-thirds of the states moved ahead on reining in managed care has only increased the call for action on the federal level, because more than 40% of the U.S. population is covered under health plans outside the reach of state regulation...
...research, Sorensen often works withvarious businesses and community organizations toget more women screened for breast cancer or fewerpeople to smoke. Acting Dean of SPH James H. Warepraised this aspect of her work...
...similar leap of illogic assumes that because women in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden consume lots of milk and also suffer high rates of breast cancer, the former must cause the latter. Another clunker is Cohen's claim that widespread lactose intolerance--the inability to digest dairy products--means milk is of little use as a source of calcium. In fact, many cases of lactose intolerance are mild and interfere only slightly with calcium uptake. Many people intolerant of milk can easily digest yogurt. And lactase tablets can make dairy products digestible even in severe cases...
Appropriate treatment is the big question. Estrogen replacement to stem the loss can increase the risk of breast cancer and, unless progestin is added in, endometrial cancer. A new medication, raloxifene, appears to stabilize bone loss while reducing the risk of breast cancer. Unlike traditional hormone-replacement therapy, however, raloxifene doesn't ease other menopausal symptoms, like hot flashes...