Word: breasted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Contrary to previous beliefs in the scientific community, major environmental pollutants such as DDT and PCB may not lead to breast cancer, according to a recent study published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine...
...study, led by Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health David J. Hunter, reports findings which do not correlate with earlier beliefs that breast cancer was directly related to blood DDE, the metabolized from of DDT and PCB levels...
...article titled "Plasma Organochlorine Levels and the Risk of Breast Cancer," is the largest study in this field to date...
Hunter obtained blood samples from 32,826 women in 1989. Three years later, a follow-up study was conducted, and 240 of those women were diagnosed with breast cancer. Their blood samples were then matched with those of the control women with the corresponding ages...
Despite protestations about its heroes' greatness, Lewis & Clark may actually not do them justice. At the end of The Great Gatsby (to switch writers for a moment), F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote of the Dutch sailors who encountered the "fresh green breast of the new world." What those sailors were to Europeans, Lewis and Clark were to Americans. They explored the extreme, forbidding, literally awe-inspiring territories that for Americans were the New World and that are still thought of as emblematic of America. This was no nurturing green breast, however; it was the broad, muscled back of the country...