Word: estrogen
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...already cried,” Brown declares, waving her hands. During the break between the pre-show and the real thing, the estrogen-dominated crowd devours the cake Brown has baked especially for this viewing. The pink-icing letters spelling “Sex” and “City” disappear within minutes—apparently the desire to emulate the bone-thin Sarah Jessica Parker has not inspired any eating disorders. Cosmopolitans in the hands of the lucky and legal few, the expanded audience settles back down...
...already cried,” Brown declares, waving her hands. During the break between the pre-show and the real thing, the estrogen-dominated crowd devours the cake Brown has baked especially for this viewing. The pink-icing letters spelling “Sex” and “City” disappear within minutes—apparently the desire to emulate the bone-thin Sarah Jessica Parker has not inspired any eating disorders. Cosmopolitans in the hands of the lucky and legal few, the expanded audience settles back down...
More bad news for hormone-replacement therapy. The FDA has asked makers of HRT pills (most of which contain the hormones progestin and estrogen) to add another warning to their labels: that HRT may raise the risk of dementia in older women. A watershed 2002 study had already linked the drugs to increased risk of breast cancer, heart attack and stroke, leading experts to conclude that for many women the risks of long-term use outweigh the benefits. The recent FDA directive was based on data published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association showing that women...
BREAST: A group of drugs called aromatase inhibitors that were once used to treat metastatic breast cancer is helpful in less advanced cases as well. They target tumors that need estrogen by lowering the amount of estrogen in the body. Women who took aromatase inhibitors for five years after taking tamoxifen (which also shrinks estrogen-sensitive tumors) reduced their risk of recurrence by almost half...
Last year put a few more nails in the coffin of long-term hormone-replacement therapy. Further examination of the data from the Women's Health Initiative, a study that involved more than 16,000 women, showed that the combination of estrogen and progestin not only raised a postmenopausal woman's risk of heart disease and breast cancer but also increased her risk of stroke and doubled her chances of developing dementia if she was 65 or older. The grim research results, on top of those released in 2002, have translated into plummeting prescriptions for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of Prempro...