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Many women who face high risk of developing breast cancer may hesitate or refuse to take preventative drugs, according to a study headed by Harvard researchers...
...team surveyed 129 high-risk women about the drug Tamoxifen, the first and only drug approved by the FDA to inhibit breast cancer...
...part of the big government-funded study known as the Women's Health Initiative was abruptly halted in 2002 after researchers found that women who took estrogen and progestin to replace the hormones lost during menopause raised their risk of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. This year the National Institutes of Health shut down another arm of the study, one involving women who had had a hysterectomy and were taking estrogen therapy without progestin. It turns out that taking estrogen alone also raises a woman's risk of stroke and blood clots. There are benefits from taking estrogen--among...
...concerned when our national dialogue can be trumped at a moment's notice by the exposing of a breast or the dropping of a towel. I did not spend any appreciable time on my NPR show talking about Scott Peterson, Kobe Bryant, the Terrell Owens incident or Janet's exposing her breast. It just doesn't interest...
Turn on a football game, and you'll see cheerleaders with seam-popping breast implants, aging sportscasters with suspiciously tenacious hairlines and commercials for pills that promise Olympian erections. Turn on the news, and you'll hear about how athletes have got the notion that it's O.K. to use artificial substances to improve their bodies. Appalling! Where would they get an idea like that...