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...report from the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. The virus moved deeper into Asia and Eastern Europe, and new cases arose in every region of the globe, evidence of the need for more effective programs for treatment and prevention, such as halting the transmission from mother to child. Breast feeding accounts for as much as half of new infections among children in Africa, and studies in Thailand found that adding the antiretroviral drug nevirapine to AZT, which is given to HIV-positive women in their last month of pregnancy, cut transmission from...
Genes play a leading role in determining who gets breast cancer, but environmental factors--such as the food you eat and the medications you take--were the big news this year. Researchers in Mexico reported that eating a high-carbohydrate diet, common in that country, seems to increase the risk, probably by raising levels of insulin in the body, which can in turn trigger cells to grow abnormally. In another study out of the University of Washington, doctors found that women who filled 25 or more prescriptions for antibiotics over a 17-year period developed breast cancer at twice...
There was good news as well. A landmark study at Columbia University showed that women taking aspirin at least four times a week for three months cut their risk of developing breast cancer 30%. Doctors warn, however, that it's too early to recommend avoiding carbs and antibiotics or turning to aspirin to treat breast cancer. Though all three studies revealed potentially useful associations, none of them can show a direct connection...
...BREAST CANCER...
Turn on a football game, and you'll see cheerleaders with seam-popping breast implants, aging sportscasters with suspiciously tenacious hairlines and commercials for pills that promise Olympian erections. Turn on the news, and you'll hear about how athletes have got the notion that it's O.K. to use artificial substances to improve their bodies. Appalling! Where would they get an idea like that...