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...what they can do on their own to limit their kids' exposure to phthalates and bisphenol A (BPA), so-called "endocrine disruptors" which can interfere with hormones that regulate gender. Animal and human studies have linked these substances to a broad swath of health problems, inlcuding prostate and breast cancer, and altered genital development. "Virtually all of us are regularly exposed to low levels of phthalates and BPA," says Shanna Swan, a University of Rochester epidemiologist and an expert on endocrine disruptors. "The risks from these products have not been firmly established. But there are some measures we can take...
Hospital executives are responding to the assault of specialists by building and aggressively marketing profitable "service lines," like cancer, heart and brain centers. They're snapping up $1.4 million computed tomography (CT) scanners, which produce palpably detailed, 3-D pictures of bones and organs, and $2.2 million "high field" MRI machines that can watch the brain at work. The inflationary dynamic spawned by this expansion of health-care capacity exposes flaws in the payment system that sustains U.S. health care. Those flaws partly explain why Americans spend $2 trillion, or 16% of their GDP, for medical care, an outlay that...
...Their particular pitch—irregular and whiny—is particularly irritating,” she said. “They harm our lungs and cause cancer and premature death.” On Nov. 6, the council announced the creation of a task force to investigate banning leaf blowers in the city due to their excessive noise...
...women with BRCA-1, the naturally occurring female hormone progesterone speeds the proliferation of mammary cells. "If we block the progesterone pathway using an antiprogesterone, it could prevent breast cancer," says Eva Lee, lead author of the study. That's exactly what mifepristone did for the experiment's mice, all of which had the BRCA-1 gene. At age 1, none of those treated with mifepristone had developed tumors. But all the untreated mice had tumors by the time they were 8 months...
...DIED. Allen Carr, 72, onetime accountant and five-packs-a-day smoker who, in 1983, gave up cigarettes and fashioned himself into a smoking-cessation guru, penning the best-seller The Easy Way to Stop Smoking; of lung cancer; near Malaga, Spain. Carr believed smoking was less physically addictive than usually thought, and that the main obstacle to quitting was psychological. He later applied his fear-conquering strategies to other concerns, writing books on the easy way to stop worrying and to control alcohol consumption...