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...term hormone therapy is still the best medical solution for the relief of hot flashes and other so-called vasomotor symptoms. Certain antidepressants may play a role in relieving hot flashes and seem particularly helpful in women who want to avoid estrogen treatment because of a history of breast cancer or concern about blood clots. Menopause is also a good time to get serious, if you haven't already, about adopting a healthy lifestyle. A diet that contains lots of fruits and vegetables and plenty of fiber becomes even more . important at midlife. Regular exercise - aerobic and muscle building...
...contrary. We've got plenty of problems." Gordimer's Get a Life, published this month in Britain and the U.S., is a good example. It's the story of Paul Bannerman, an ecologist and antinuclear campaigner in his mid-thirties who, ironically, becomes temporarily radioactive after treatment for thyroid cancer. This "lit-up leper" is a menace to his young son and his wife, an advertising executive. So he moves into an empty wing of his parents' home. The situation is ripe for satire, but Gordimer has more serious plans. As Paul struggles to recover, his country and his family...
...Experiments The Department of Energy said last week that 750 poor women who went to Vanderbilt University for free prenatal care in the 1940s were fed radioactive pills as part of a government experiment to study the absorption of iron among pregnant women. The tests are blamed for the cancer deaths of at least three children born to these women. It is not yet known whether the subjects were told what was in the pills...
...food. Nicolas Cage plays Dave Spritz, an overpaid, oversexed, and unloved Chicago weatherman coming apart at the seams. He’s recently split with his wife, Noreen (Hope Davis), his kids are troubled, and people keep throwing food at him. When his father (Michael Caine) is diagnosed with cancer, Spritz takes it as a sign he has to get his life in order; he starts with winning back his estranged family in an effort to win his dying father’s respect. Whatever one thinks of Cage’s style (he seems as polarizing a figure...
According to an account in Rubin’s book on Murakami, Murakami and his wife had a special bed made to accommodate Carver’s large build for his expected visit to Japan. Carver suddenly died of cancer before he could make the trip. “I thought I could do that at any time, and all of a sudden he died, and I was shocked,” Murakami says...