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...screening test that women usually get every year. But a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that for women who are at low risk, the number of additional cancers caught by annual screening is vanishingly small, comparable to the number of men who get breast cancer. This gives statistical support to the advice of the American Cancer Society, which recommended last year that women who have three or more negative tests can be safely screened once every three years. Women in high-risk categories--ask your doctor--should continue to be screened annually...
After two days of emotionally charged testimony, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 9 to 6 to recommend that silicone breast implants be allowed back on the market. Their sale was halted in 1992 because of concerns that leaking implants could cause serious illness. Later studies found no evidence that implants caused the myriad chronic diseases that had been attributed to them. But because of lingering concerns, the panel put conditions on their approval. The manufacturer must continue to follow patients for 10 years, it must give women coming in for implants information about scarring, ruptures and other...
DIED. SHIRLEY GLASS, 67, psychologist dubbed the "godmother" of research on infidelity; of breast cancer; in Owing Mills, Md. In magazine articles, TV interviews and a 2003 book, Not "Just Friends," Glass took a clinical approach to infidelity, treating it not as a moral issue but as a painful problem that could affect even successful marriages. Among her influential ideas: marriages could be threatened not only by sexual affairs but also by nonsexual relationships that were emotionally intimate...
George Washington once said: “Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience...
...student was attacked at approximately 8:30 p.m. when a male grabbed her wrist and waist, spun her around, grabbed her breast and then attempted to remove her coat, according to a community advisory released yesterday by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...