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...family pile into an aging station wagon and slowly and uncertainly make their way to the apartment of their estranged sister, daughter and granddaughter. Along the comic journey, we get to know Joy (played at the perfect acerbic pitch by Patricia Clarkson), April’s hypercritical and sardonic breast cancer-stricken mother who smokes pot and poses nude for her son; Jim (played with understatement by Oliver Platt), April’s eternally tolerant father and the only family member to have drip of genuine expectations and hope for a pleasant Thanksgiving; the under-appreciated overachieving dream-daughter, Beth...
...what was their issue? Equal opportunity? The right to choose? Wage discrimination? No, these women were out to tackle a much more menacing threat: the reintroduction of silicone breast implants. Armed with graphic pictures of women whose breasts implants had ruptured or been removed, the protesters demanded that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) delay consideration of the issue before further research was conducted...
Despite the women’s protests, last week an advisory panel to the FDA voted to recommend that silicone breast implants be allowed back on the market after a prohibition that has lasted for the past eleven years. In 1992, the United States banned breast implants filled with silicone gel after hundreds of women complained that ruptured implants had leaked silicone into their bodies and caused long-term chronic immune system disorders. Saline implants, though less “natural” in appearance and feel, were used alternatively after...
Each year about 212,000 women in the U.S. are found to have breast cancer; half of them are postmenopausal and have tumors studded with receptors for estrogen or progesterone. These growths are perfect targets for tamoxifen and letrozole, which block estrogen's tumor-enhancing effects, albeit through two different mechanisms. "Estrogen is like the fuel that runs a car engine," says Dr. James Ingle, who headed the U.S. portion of the trial at the Mayo Clinic. "If you remove the fuel, the engine quits running...
...Vote by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommending legalization of silicone breast implants, which were banned in 1992 due to claims that leaking implants can cause cancer...