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...Most of that increased risk was due to the greater danger of breast and other cancers among these women. "We had all hoped to see the breast cancer risk diminish rapidly [after hormone therapy was stopped]," says Dr. Gerardo Heiss, the lead author of the JAMA study and an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health. "But that was not the case with women...
...good news is that many of the other health risks associated with hormone therapy -heart disease and blood clotting, for example - did diminish rapidly once the hormones were stopped. Less welcome is the fact that any benefits derived from estrogen and progestin in keeping bones strong also dissipated soon after the women terminated their hormone therapy...
...restaurant operations at Boston College (BC). O’Neill specifically referenced flour and milk prices. Food prices have increased 75 percent since 2005, according to a recent article in The Economist. At BC the increase in food prices is directly passed on to the students and does not diminish the food’s quality. The college has “a little more leeway than Harvard,” O’Neill said, because BC students pay only for what they purchase and eat at each meal. If students request certain foods, “we just...
Nader’s efforts to diminish the vibrancy of the Democratic race reinforces the popular perception of him as a vanity candidate. So long as Nader suggests that the two major parties are indistinguishable, he will do his own values a disservice...
...Ronald Reagan. Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, a longtime foe of McCain, predicted that the current nervousness about McCain would dissipate over the coming months, assuming that the candidate continued to sound solidly conservative themes on the trail. "There will be a low-boil, low-level rumbling that will diminish," Norquist said. "McCain didn't have a voice in this campaign until after New Hampshire. So he is new to a lot of people...