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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Providing new ammunition for groups who say women should begin having mammograms at age 40, preliminary results from a new study suggest that women who routinely examine their breasts for lumps may not be reducing their risk of dying from breast cancer. Researchers, led by Dr. David Thomas of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, studied 267,000 Chinese women in Shanghai and enrolled about half, 133,375 in an intensive self-examination program. Thomas said "there was no difference" in the rates of either cancer deaths or in cancer detection, although women who performed...
...some southeast Asian sweatshop. They're Americans, like us. Now our moment of fleeting pity escalates into a moment of fleeting concern. Americans they may be, we comfort ourselves, but they probably work in some forsaken Pennsylvania factory and wear shirts with their names embroidered in cursive above the breast pocket. But the defense mechanisms that protect us from the moral tentacles of empathy are foiled yet again. The men and women being axed are not blue collar. Actually, they're wearing white shirts and ties and might even have a cellular phone tucked in the glovebox of their Ford...
...Hawk helicopter. That was before she discovered the slower-motion joy of nursing her 21-lb., nine-month-old daughter Isabella. Since then Cuevas has twice asked the Army to let her leave the service, arguing that a pilot's demanding schedule has made it impossible for her to breast-feed her daughter properly. The Army says no, explaining that Cuevas made a deal when she became a cadet at West Point. U.S. taxpayers spent $500,000 educating her at the academy and at pilot training school in exchange for her pledge to stay in uniform until...
...Blaney, also a lieutenant, who graduated from West Point the same year as his wife, plans to sue the Army on behalf of Isabella in federal district court in Washington. The draft of his complaint asserts that his daughter is being denied nothing less than "a constitutional right to breast-feed by having her mother impounded by the government." Attached affidavits from pediatricians say Isabella will grow up healthier if she drinks her mother's milk until she is two. Cuevas doesn't want her baby drinking formula and is unable to pump enough breast milk to feed her. "Breast...
...failed to note the critical role breast feeding plays in optimizing a baby's brain power. Mother's milk contains important building blocks not found in any domestic infant formula. Babies breast fed just one month have an 8-point IQ advantage as kindergartners, and that figure rises with extended breast feeding. LAURA HAYNES COLLECTOR The Breast-Feeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles Irwindale, California