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Boards have some understandable reluctance to cross some lines if they may not have a tangible effect on company results. The Apple (AAPL) board clearly decided that Steve Jobs had some right to his privacy about his health. That may have been bad for investors. No one may ever know...
...decline in breast cancer rates was largely due to the sudden stoppage of hormone therapy. But this correlation, first presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference in December, has been met with skepticism by other researchers in the community. They raised concerns about drawing a cause-and-effect relationship, since the sharpest decline in women's breast cancer rates occurred in the year after the WHI was halted and its data released, between 2002 and 2003 - too soon to see such a dramatic change in a complex disease like breast cancer, which takes many years to develop...
...treatment for tiny, preclinical breast cancers. "When you change from a high- to a low-estrogen environment, it's like giving breast cancer treatment," he says. "These are preclinical cancers that are below the level of detection, and that accounts for why biologically we can see such a quick effect in stopping hormone therapy." In the three-year WHI study alone, there were 20,000 preclinical breast cancer cases among the women who continued taking hormone therapy - cancers that may potentially have been avoided...
...militants continue to fire rockets. On Tuesday a medium-range Grad missile struck the Israeli port city of Ashkelon in what may be Hamas' closing shot before an Egyptian-brokered truce finally takes effect. Hamas and its supporters have claimed victory as a result of simply being able to survive the fierce Israeli onslaught. As a result, Hamas says, Israel lost the political battle - its pummeling of Gaza and the heavy Palestinian death toll has offended many former supporters, leaving Hamas' political position strengthened. But in battle, Israel clearly held the upper hand. During the conflict, very few of Hamas...
...White House aides say the important thing is not to focus on the holes in the lobbying rules but on their positive effect. The new Obama policy, according to several outside groups, remains the most expansive ban on the revolving door between lobbyists and public service in Executive Branch history. The exceptions aside, White House spokesman Gibbs says he is convinced that the American people will not lose sight of the forest for a few trees...