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...chicken breast from the grille Three red onions slices Two tomato slices Two pieces of cheese Two slices of bread Barbecue sauce and mayonnaise Spread barbecue sauce and mayo on each slice of bread, Add cheese, oninons, chicken, and tomatoes. Place sandwich in George Foreman grill until cheese is melted...
...some ways, the program--known as the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Plus Concept (PORECO)--looks like many such schemes around Africa. Besides educating mothers about the best way to breast-feed their kids, it gives newborn children a protective dose of nevirapine, an AIDS drug proved able to stop transmission of HIV through breast milk. The program, run in conjunction with the Swaziland Ministry of Health and funded by drug company Bristol-Myers Squibb, goes beyond the usual clinic visits. PORECO offers a large measure of community support and education, the kind of comprehensive care that Bhembe hopes...
Bhembe helped start the program after working with breast-feeding mothers, many of them HIV-positive, who were having problems feeding their children. "I would go home in the evening and look at my two healthy sons and count myself blessed," she says. "I just had to help these mothers." She takes a matter-of-fact approach toward HIV/AIDS that still surprises many Swazis. "I think what has worked for us is to have an attitude that it's not a special disease. We talk to a patient like you would if he or she had cancer or is diabetic...
...from the point of view of a doctor--and a son--the news on breast cancer has mostly been good lately. Two weeks ago, for example, the results from a large trial of Herceptin, a medicine approved for late-stage patients, showed that it dramatically reduced recurrence in early-stage patients as well--by about 50%. Because Herceptin works by blocking a protein called HER2 that signals cells to divide and grow too fast, it is valuable only for the 20% to 30% of patients whose tumors are HER2-positive. Still, the news was greeted by many specialists...
Meanwhile, there's a lot you can do to reduce your risk of getting cancer in the first place. Drinking only in moderation helps, as does eating in moderation (obese women are twice as likely to die from breast cancer). And since we know that estrogen fuels these tumors, women at risk for breast cancer should consider alternatives to hormone therapy...