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Ever since the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) concluded three years ago that the long-term use of the hormones estrogen and progestin to prevent heart disease was not worth the associated health risks, women have been frustrated and confused about what to do as they go through menopause. Part of the problem is that the WHI study was never designed to look at menopause. Participants were mostly in their 60s, when more and more women begin suffering heart attacks, and not their late 40s and early 50s, when most women eventually stop menstruating. But as data presented...
...point Singer said, 'You do realize this show is kind of about House?'" Now that House has been nominated for five Emmys and Laurie has appeared on the cover of TV Guide as TV'S SEXIEST MAN, the button has been put away. "Nobody expected the outpouring of estrogen," says Shore, "least of all Hugh...
...American children for more than a decade, "there's no evidence that the age of menses has stopped falling. When will it stop? When girls are 9?" There is no consensus about the cause: some scientists blame exposure to certain plastics and insecticides, which degrade into substances with estrogen-related physiological effects. Diets high in meat and protein are associated with earlier puberty. As for boys, Herman-Giddens notes that they are reaching their adult heights at younger ages, which suggests that they too are maturing earlier...
Sarah E.F. Milov ’07, a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House, is a news editor of The Harvard Crimson. She is spending the summer in a sea of estrogen because she thinks that is where she is most likely to find Mr. Right...
...release this month, Hollywood Vice Squad and The Boys Next Door. At the other end of the fringe, Donna Deitch, 40, won the Jury Prize at this year's U.S. Film Festival with Desert Hearts, a tale of Sapphic love in Reno that plays like The Women hyped on estrogen. The festival's Grand Prize went to Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk, which opened in New York City recently to critical raves...