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...months and rapid body growth does not occur until the third trimester. Even after the baby is born, abstinence may be advisable. A study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine suggests that when mothers have one or more drinks a day, their children ingest alcohol in breast milk, which may impede the infants' motor development...
...come into wide use. Now, however, new questions are being raised about their safety. Although the evidence is far from conclusive, a major study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that at least some of the post-menopause medication may increase the risk of breast cancer...
...hormones, after menopause; a third of them were also on progestin, an artificial form of the hormone progesterone. The researchers compared these women with others who had not taken hormones. The results: after nine years the women who took a kind of estrogen called estradiol had about twice the breast-cancer rate of those who were not on replacement therapy. The women on estrogen and progestin had a higher rate -- about four times as many cases of breast cancer after they used the combination for six or more years. Medical experts point out that parts of this report contradict some...
...osteoporosis and appeared to guard against heart disease. But it was discovered that estrogen increased the risk of uterine cancer. To lower the odds of contracting uterine cancer, many doctors added progestin to the treatment, and it was hoped that the drug would also help reduce any risk of breast cancer associated with estrogen alone. The drawback to progestin seemed to be that it reduces some of the benefits of estrogen, in particular the apparent protection against heart disease. Now the possibility of a breast- cancer risk has further muddled an already confused situation...
Estrogen-based drugs intended to ease the toll of menopause are linked to breast cancer. -- A new study shows that AZT can slow the onset of AIDS...