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Does taking antibiotics really double a woman's risk of getting breast cancer? That was the clear impression left by some headlines last week, but that may say more about the dangers of first impressions than it does about antibiotics...
...risks involved. From May 2003 to January 2004, five people in Florida died following cosmetic plastic surgery, prompting the state's board of medicine to open an investigation. All five, ranging in age from 38 to 63, had their operations done in doctors' offices. One had a breast augmentation; another, surgery on his eyes, chin and neck; another had liposuction and a fat transfer; and two, liposuction and tummy tuck. Citing an "immediate danger to public health," the board issued a 90-day moratorium on the two procedures being performed together in a nonhospital setting. A 54-year-old woman...
...least two additional years of a residency in plastic surgery. But many doctors don't bother with the special training and practice the surgery anyway to supplement their incomes. Only two of the five doctors in the fatal Florida cases were board-certified. The woman who died after a breast augmentation was operated on by a doctor who specialized in dentistry...
...Bernard, who operates in his Westchester, N.Y., office and is the president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, whose members are all board-certified. "If somebody comes in and wants their face, eyes and nose done, that's O.K. But if they want that as well as breast reduction and a large amount of liposuction, I'd prefer to divide it into two procedures...
...news sprang from a review of the medical records of more than 10,000 women who belonged to a Seattle-area health plan. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, compared pharmacy and breast-cancer-screening records and found that women who filled 25 or more prescriptions for antibiotics over a 17year period developed breast cancer at twice the rate of those who took no antibiotics. Moreover, there seemed to be what scientists call a dosage-response trend: among women who took more antibiotics, the death rate from cancer was even higher, as much...