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Lori Tilden was in the room when her sister Kim died of breast cancer in 1998. The loss was devastating, but Lori took some consolation from the fact that her sister, a mother of two, had lived long enough to bequeath her remains to the UCLA willed-body program, hoping that what researchers learned from her cadaver would help spare other children the pain of growing up without a mother...
...years ago, the NIH cut short the part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study that looked at the long-term use of a combination treatment including estrogen and progestin. Reason: women in the study were showing increased risk of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. Last week's announcement concerns estrogen alone, which, it turns out, slightly increases a woman's risk of stroke but not of heart disease or breast cancer...
...fact, what surprised scientists about the study is that supplements of estrogen, unlike the combination of estrogen and progestin, did not appear to increase a woman's risk of breast cancer. Perhaps estrogen pills work more selectively in the body than anyone had realized. Or perhaps the type of progestin used in studies was more likely to trigger tumor growth...
There’s less confrontation between the impossibly tender roasted veal breast with herbs de provence and the extraordinary Mouvedre, Grenache and Syrah blend. Instead, the flavors work together for a complex interplay of lavender hints. The meal concludes with a loin lamb chop and an earthy Syrah wine, by which point only the most zealous eaters can even look at lamb...
...bone. In this campaign we have already been buffeted by exceedingly powerful social and political images--men kissing other men on the steps of San Francisco's city hall, Saddam being pulled from a hole, John Kerry hugging a man he saved in Vietnam, Janet Jackson's exposed breast at the Super Bowl, George W. Bush prancing prematurely in his flight suit, Howard Dean screaming, Bush bringing turkey to the troops. The chaotic rush of images--and the President's constant invocation of incendiary words like war and evil--suggests a portentous, emotional year in the offing. It is possible...