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What if doctors had a pill that prevents breast cancer and nobody wanted to take it? That has pretty much been the situation with tamoxifen, an estrogen-like drug that was proved in 1998 to cut in half the chance of developing breast cancer if taken for five years by women with increased risk of the malignancy. The trouble is, tamoxifen also triggers menopausal symptoms like hot flashes and slightly increases the chances that a woman will develop blood clots and uterine cancer. As a result, women haven't been too eager to take the medication--nor have many doctors...
...impacts of such development will be immense, ranging from the destruction of wildlife habitat to the loss of sediment transfer - the natural movement of soil downstream to create alluvial floodplains that farmers have relied upon for centuries. Thousands of villagers would have to be relocated to make room for dams and reservoirs, and many would still not benefit directly from new power production because most of the electricity would be used in cities, not in rural areas. Environmentalists are also skeptical that the ambitious integrated scheme would ever work. "It's pie-in-the-sky stuff," says Lori Pottinger, director...
...issue that doctors argue about: which matters more, information or experience? Broadly speaking, a younger doctor is likely to have been trained in the newest surgical procedures, be more up to date on the literature, and be more open to new techniques. Older doctors have had more years to develop the instinctive diagnostic skills that can make the difference in complicated cases and may be skeptical of innovations that are driven more by marketing than medicine...
...know people are always talking about the horrible Corporation, but...it’s quite intimate because it meets so often and you see each other so many times,” Slichter said yesterday. “You either develop warm relationships or it’s not that much fun. He was just terrific...
...million people who will celebrate the 37th Earth Day this weekend—a collective “not dead yet” wheeze. However, these numbers mask the growing irrelevance of the environmentalist movement. Having lost its credibility with alarmist rhetoric and obsolete ideological ballast, the movement must develop a moderate discourse while challenging its previous assumptions and outdated theories...