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Imagine an experiment in which a few hundred women with breast cancer are divided into two groups. Patients in one group have their tumors surgically removed, while those in the other wait patiently, keeping a close eye on the progress of their disease, and are treated only if their cancer starts to spread. Sound barbaric? Substitute prostate cancer for breast cancer, and that is pretty much what 700 Scandinavian men in the early stages of prostate cancer agreed to. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, showed that the men who underwent surgery were half...
Researchers also learned that, for women with poor nutrition and weak immune systems, multivitamins excluding vitamin A reduce rates of early child mortality and of HIV transmission via breast milk, defined as infection after six weeks of age among those who were not known to be infected previously...
...kind of memory is not the most important one. Some events solder themselves within our consciousness so intensely that they change forever the way we see the world. The details barely matter. The change itself matters. Your child is killed in a car accident; your mother is diagnosed with breast cancer; your wife is raped. These kinds of events stop your life for a moment; your soul freezes while the rest of the world swivels around you to a new position. Part of you insists, This hasn't happened. Part of you demands, Move on. Most of you knows that...
...light morning mist hangs over the jungle as Peter Taggart sets a hornbill on a tree branch. Taggart runs an antipoaching station in the Cardamom Mountains in southwest Cambodia, and the hornbill, a black bird with a white breast and an oversize yellow beak, has been confiscated from a local villager. "The guy was keeping it as a pet," says Taggart, who works for Washington-based Conservation International. "He said he didn't know it was protected, but they all know, really...
CANCER CLUSTER Women on New York's Long Island face a breast-cancer risk 30% higher than the national average. Activists blamed pesticides that farmers used to spray on potatoes and other crops, but a seven-year, $8 million government-ordered study found no link--at least to DDT (banned in 1972). The jury is still out on the pesticides now in use. --By David Bjerklie...