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...with DCIS is also rife with extenuating factors. If DCIS never left the breast ducts, physicians could safely ignore it. No one knows for sure, but at least one study suggests that perhaps 40% of DCIS lesions will develop into invasive tumors that, if left untreated, could eventually prove fatal. That means that maybe 60% of DCIS cases never threaten a woman's health--and therefore these growths do not need to be removed...
Five years ago, doctors and their patients hailed tamoxifen, which was the first drug approved for reducing the risk of getting breast cancer (rather than just treating it). But tamoxifen is far from perfect. It increases the risk of uterine cancer and potentially fatal blood clots. Raloxifene appears to provoke fewer side effects, but the results from a head-to-head study comparing the two drugs won't be available until...
This underscores a basic change in American life. Distance is not what it used to be. Thirty years ago, a separation of more than a day's drive could prove fatal to romance. Travel was expensive; long-distance calls were for special occasions. The romance of Iris Cornelius and David Washington shows just how much times have changed...
...Japan's fatal misstep was to avoid the short-term pain of closing down dud companies and faltering banks after the bubble burst, the so-called "creative destruction" the U.S. allowed in the 1990-91 recession and after the savings and loan collapse of 1988. Tokyo said it wanted to avoid layoffs, that companies would recover when the economy perked up. The real story is that Tokyo's instinctive reaction has been to dole out government contracts to construction companies and make banks provide cheap capital to keep retail empires going. (In January, the government backed a bailout of struggling...
...first identified in China in 1957, and the Hong Kong flu of 1968 together killed more than 1.5 million people worldwide. Considering the lethal history, scientists are keen to track the mutations of the latest virus. Although only the 1997 variant infected humans, the concern is that another fatal combination could leap the species barrier at any time."We do not know enough about H5N1," Shortridge says. "It's a dangerous situation...