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...criticism directed at the country's health officials, who drew fire for being slow to respond when people started getting sick. "Sometimes I wonder how many people had to die before anyone did anything," says Dr. Masayuki Adachi of Keio University Hospital in Tokyo. The 31-year-old doctor alerted the government in late April when two of his patients, both women, suffered liver failure after taking Chinese diet pills. "I couldn't prove a definitive connection," he says, "but I knew these drugs were very popular, that my patients were very sick and that people should be warned...
What do you do if you're dangerously overweight? Most of us would go see a doctor or nutritionist who's trained to deal with obesity...
Susan Pierres, a Miami photojournalist who just turned 60, is confused and angry. Ten years ago, when she was approaching menopause, her doctor started her on hormone-replacement therapy, or HRT. "I didn't have any symptoms," she recalls, "but he recommended it for general well-being, bones and heart." Many years and pills later, her gynecologist suggested that perhaps it was time to stop. After all, there had been reports that HRT might increase a woman's risk of breast cancer, a disease that had afflicted Pierres' mother and aunt. She turned to several other physicians for advice. They...
Should Pierres believe these latest results or go back to her doctor for an explanation? Which doctor? It's not as though she's all that eager to get off hormones: "You feel it is your last vestige of youth. What if my skin turns scaly and my hair falls out?" she worries. "These are complicated matters. People like me don't know where to go or whom to listen...
...sets of dumbbells and some ankle weights. You should follow a program appropriate to your age and condition, and you can easily find various programs in my books and other sources. As with all exercise, if you have a chronic medical condition, it's best to talk to your doctor before you start...