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When is it a good time to take estrogen? Every new study on hormone replacement therapy and menopause seems to confuse the question further. Taking estrogen and progestin has been linked to increased risks of heart disease, stroke and even breast cancer in postmenopausal women. But what about taking estrogen alone, for women who have had their uterus or ovaries removed? Studies have suggested that there's a critical, age-dependent window before menopause during which the hormone - either the body's natural estrogen or that which is introduced during therapy - is protective. Now, two new, related studies...
...removed and 676 women had both ovaries removed, while the 1,472 women in the control group had both ovaries intact. Half of the women had oophorectomies because of a benign condition, such as infection or cysts, and the other half had their ovaries removed prophylactically to prevent ovarian cancer. Lead investigator Dr. Walter Rocca, a neurologist and epidemiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and his team found that compared with women who had kept both ovaries, the risk of cognitive impairment or dementia was doubled in women who had both ovaries removed before age 48 or one ovary...
...husband 8 points ahead of Hillary Clinton in Iowa, and they fall into a hush when Elizabeth talks about health care. "Ninety-five thousand women in this state are uninsured," she says, "and if you are uninsured, you are 30% to 50% more likely to die of breast cancer." Her words resonate with the knowledge that her breast cancer has spread incurably to her ribs and hip. She mentions her husband's health-care plan, which promises to cover every American at a cost to taxpayers of $90 billion to $120 billion a year, and says, "I want...
...speak on behalf of the sick, or whites on behalf of people of color. But in politics, of course, dumb arguments can hurt you, which is why some Edwards aides urged him not to build such a big house. Their effort failed because the Edwardses-having battled cancer and lost a son, Wade, in an automobile accident 11 years ago, when he was 16-wanted to enjoy the luxuries they could afford. "We live our lives," says Elizabeth. "We're not pretending to be anything we're not. People have said, Don't do this or that. How would...
While it is true that no cadavers have been labeled KILLED BY DBCP, scientific bodies from the National Academy of Sciences to the World Health Organization have classified dozens of pesticides as powerful animal carcinogens that are likely to cause cancer in humans. Human studies have found that pesticides also cause birth defects in farmworkers, as well as nerve damage and genetic mutations...