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Among the many difficult decisions women face after receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer is whether to undergo mastectomy, not only of the breast with cancer but, as a preventive measure, of the unaffected breast as well. Cancer detected in one breast has a tendency to spread to the other, healthy breast, and an increasing number of women are choosing to excise the unaffected breast, just to be safe. Numerous studies have documented the reduction in breast-cancer recurrence in women who elect to remove both breasts, but until now, no studies had confirmed that this decision actually increases...
Harvard would assuredly love to get another shot to face the Tigers. In two of the last three years, the Crimson has lost the championship match to its fellow Ancient Eight rival...
McCarthy's way, however, is one that flies in the face of all credible research on what does and does not cause autism and whether it can be treated. McCarthy claims Evan was healed through a range of experimental and unproved biomedical treatments; even more controversially, she blames the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine for giving her son autism. And yet research conclusively shows that vaccines are safe for children; just last month, the U.K. scientist who had published a study linking the MMR shot to autism was found by a British medical panel to have acted unethically. McCarthy...
...have won over mothers and found such a ready audience if there weren't many who felt they were hearing someone state what they had long suspected. McCarthy may have been promoting her book, but she had inadvertently become the poster mom for a movement. "Jenny gave us a face," says Kim Stagliano, a mother of three autistic girls and one of the founders of the popular blog Age of Autism. "I feel like Jenny going public was pretty brave ... There is a certain personality within the Curebie community [parents who believe they can cure their autistic children], and that...
...just change your clothes. "You change your mind-set completely," says Demong. "[Ski jumping] is very technical, and you've got to be really relaxed and just focused on swinging through it, essentially. In [the relay], you've got to get your game face on and get angry, get going ... You've got to be ready to hurt...