Word: breasted
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...where does it all end? Possibly in a book. But Genovese plans no lengthy personal confessional, no breast-beating update of The God That Failed (1949), a book of essays by ex-communists that is best remembered for Arthur Koestler's mea culpa. He says he will return to the debate only if the discussion on the left stays alive. For him, the bottom line remains: the Question deserves an Answer...
HEALTH: When Breast-Feeding Fails...
...Bradley Erwin looked like a healthy baby when he was born last March. He just didn't seem to get the hang of breast-feeding. His mother Kimberly, 38, a medical technician, tried to nurse him. "He would bob his head, root and try to latch on, but he wasn't getting anywhere," she recalls. "Everybody kept saying, 'Don't worry. Don't worry."' It was bad advice. When the infant was 12 days old, his parents rushed him to Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. His breathing was shallow; his eyes had rolled back. "I was frantic because...
Everyone knows that breast-feeding is natural and that doctors agree it is the best way to feed an infant. It is a less advertised fact that not every woman -- or baby -- can do it. "In our attempt to promote breast-feeding, we have overstated how easy it is," says Dr. Marianne Neifert, medical director of the lactation program at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver. Neifert is an expert on a rare condition called low-milk syndrome, which occurs when a baby fails, as Bradley did, to get enough nutrition. Her studies suggest that perhaps...
Estrogen therapy, based on the hormone that can lessen the sometimes debilitating symptoms of menopause, may no longer be off-limits to many women. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association now says many doctors have wrongly denied breast-cancer survivors the hormone, fearing without much evidence that the hormone would reactivate their cancer cells...