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...whole is getting better and we expect higher levels of knowledge in our docs. I certainly wouldn't want anyone but a neurosurgeon dissecting a tumor out of my brain, or anyone but smart oncologist coming up with the drug cocktail that might save my life from a cancer. It's usually not that hard, though. The great bulk of patient visits are for really simple things - questions that a reasonably bright resident would get right. Most pneumonias, for example, are pretty easy to treat; the internist should have no trouble doing it himself. But sub-specialization is the trend.The...
MARGARET SPELLINGS, U.S. Education Secretary, giving encouragement to deputy White House press secretary Dana Perino, who will take over for press secretary Tony Snow, who is battling cancer...
...seemed almost too easy--and it was. In 2002 the quick pharmaceutical fix was all but snatched away when a large government study found that women taking hormones actually increased their odds of heart disease and that they put themselves at greater risk of breast cancer, stroke and blood clots. Women suffering with serious menopausal symptoms would simply have to balance the dangers and the benefits of the hormone treatments...
Reassuring--or at least illuminating--as all these findings are, hormone therapy is still a gamble. Even in women taking the treatment who were less than 10 years from the onset of menopause, there was a 77% higher risk of stroke and a 19% higher risk of breast cancer. That's why doctors urge those who take hormones to have their blood pressure checked and get regular mammograms. Aging may indeed never be easy, but once in a while it at least gets a little less confusing...
...press, became tabloid fodder as she battled her father-in-law over the fortune of her real estate--tycoon husband Teddy Wang, who was kidnapped in 1990 and never seen again. (A 2005 ruling allowed her to hold on to the estate.) She was 69 and reportedly had ovarian cancer...