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...more a woman breast-feeds, the lower her risk of diabetes, according to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This is the first time a link has been found between breast-feeding and health benefits for the mother, said Karin B. Michels, the study’s senior author and associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). “We know that breast-feeding is good in particular for the child, but this study adds evidence that it is also good for the mother...
...they are working on scholarship programs for factory workers, bringing in midwives to educate young mothers about breast feeding, providing better health care and starting yoga classes. ?The idea is to be an example to the other employers on the island,? she says. ?Like we are with our organic farming,? says John. And then he pauses. ?What if we could turn all of Bali organic? What would it take? Imagine what would happen to the health of our children, our environment, if we just took this little island and made it Organic Experiment...
SMOKING It's no secret that smoking is bad for you, but secondhand smoke is proving more dangerous than anyone suspected. Two studies showed that women who don't smoke but live or work with people who do have a 27% increased risk of breast cancer and are as much as twice as likely to develop cervical tumors. Another study showed that children raised by smokers have as much as three times greater risk of developing lung cancer when they grow up. A fourth study found that the grandchildren of women who smoked while pregnant are more than twice...
...Breast Cancer When the authors of a large international study reported that Herceptin, a powerful drug for treating advanced cases of so-called HER2-positive breast cancers, could also dramatically reduce--by 46%--recurrence of early-stage HER2 cancers, they triggered impassioned requests for the drug by patients and fierce debate among doctors. At issue was whether the trial, which had reported interim--not final--results, was reliable enough to persuade doctors to change their treatment practices. Most physicians have decided to wait for the trial to be completed in 2008 before making any decisions...
...Harvard, it turned out, was not what either of us thought it would be. It wasn’t the place where you could grapple with the maxims of ancient philosophy in a room where the Magna Carta was signed (Catizone’s dream breast). And it wasn’t the place where people skipped school for three weeks at a time to play Madden and ingest horse tranquilizers (Schonberger’s dream breast...