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Good news for families with a history of breast cancer. Scientists have found a gene that causes a hereditary form of the disease, the first step toward developing an early test for the malady. Unfortunately, only 1 in 20 breast-cancer cases is inherited. Still, scientists believe the breakthrough is likely to help develop a way to check for other forms of the disease as well, according to TIME reporter Allison Park. The gene found today -- BRCA1 -- may also raise the risk of contracting ovarian cancer...
...Wednesday on the Malecon, where Havana meets the swelling breast of its bay. The Malecon is Cuba's promenade, its boardwalk, its Champs Elysees. Across the Straits of Florida in Miami, kingdom of dollars, citadel of wealth unimaginable, the exiles have a favorite T shirt: it portrays the Malecon after Castro's fall as an endless vista of shiny, neon-lighted fast-food joints. The crumbling, once graceful seafront is still a long way from that plastic vision. Potuombo gestures at the crowd in his cafe, who are placidly consuming not Whoppers or Big Macs but the tepid brown soda...
...federal judge approved a $4.25 billion settlement for women who had breast implants made by 60 manufacturers. The settlement, the largest in a liability case in U.S. history, was reached in April after nearly two years of negotiations between women's attorneys and U.S. implant manufacturers. About 90,000 women who underwent the implant operation stand to get paid between $105,000 to $1.4 million each depending on their age and health. The implants were alleged to have caused a number of ailments including breast cancer, lupus and scleroderma, a progressive disease affecting skin and organ tissues...
Thereason for low milk production, Neifert found, is usually anatomical. Some women simply lack sufficient glandular tissue (as opposed to fatty tissue) in their breasts. A history of breast surgery -- biopsies, breast reduction -- increases the risk. (A warning sign of the problem: the breasts do not swell significantly during early pregnancy.) How does one tell if a breast-fed baby is getting enough to eat? The proof, say experts, is in the diaper. In the first few weeks of life, a nursing baby normally wets at least six diapers a day and has very frequent bowel movements. For mothers...
While low-milk syndrome is not necessarily on the rise, some doctors believe that they are seeing more severe cases than in the past because shorter hospital stays for new mothers make it harder to train them in the techniques of breast-feeding and harder to identify problems. "We aren't able to intervene in day two or three of life," says Dr. Michael Farrell, chief of staff at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital. Most American women now leave the hospital within 36 hours of giving birth and don't see a pediatrician until a week later -- often too late...