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...deformities. The industrial chemicals known as PCBs, which have polluted land and water all over the world, tend to become concentrated in animals' fatty tissues. Seals, which are the bears' main source of food, are essentially blobs of blubber with flippers attached. And because PCBs are thought to mimic estrogen, some experts fear that even low-level exposure could wreak havoc with a bear's reproductive system...
...body's store of estrogen wanes naturally for a reason: as women age, they don't need the hormone anymore. We will all be grateful when the medical profession does us a big favor and just lets us be natural women. SUE MACDONALD Cincinnati, Ohio...
...market for BIRTH CONTROL DEVICES is positively fertile, with several new products jostling for shelf space. They work like the Pill, secreting the same hormones--estrogen and the synthetic progestin--that are bad news as long-term therapy for postmenopausal women but are still considered relatively safe as contraceptives...
...news about hormone-replacement therapy just keeps pouring in. Not only has long-term HRT been associated with blood clots, heart attacks and breast cancer, but last week it was linked to cancer of the ovaries as well. A 20-year study found that postmenopausal women taking estrogen alone were 60% more likely to develop ovarian cancer than women who took no hormones--and that the risk increased the longer they took it. The researchers noted, however, that HRT preparations today differ from earlier formulations and that in the past, long-term treatment involved higher average daily doses of estrogen...
...Estrogen is indeed the closest thing in modern medicine to an elixir of youth--a drug that slows the ravages of time for women. It is already the No. 1 prescription drug in America, and it is about to hit its demographic sweet spot: the millions of baby boomers now experiencing their first hot flashes...what today's women should know is that like every other magic potion, this one has a dark side...It means a lifetime of drug taking and possible side effects that include an increased risk of several forms of cancer. That danger was underscored last...