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Still reeling from the previous night's disappointment, the prognosis for Harvard's match-up against second-place Colgate, riding a five-game winning streak, was admittedly grim. But the Crimson executed a rare comeback and battled the Red Raiders...
...picture may not be quite so grim as it seems, however. For one thing, although the study was large--drawing from a pool of 46,355 postmenopausal women--the number of women on combined estrogen and progestin therapy was comparatively modest. For another, the rise in risk only became striking after four or more years of continuous hormone use, which further reduced the pool of subjects. In the end, out of a total of 2,082 cases of breast cancer, 101 occurred among women who were currently taking estrogen-progestin--and of these, a striking 39 occurred among the roughly...
...catch-up in recent years, scrambling to overcome a legacy of considering only the male physiology in tests and studies. Now, leafing through the growing pile of papers addressing women's health issues, it looks like no news might have been better. The outlook for female patients is grim on multiple medical fronts: Women are contracting AIDS at higher rates than men, they are suffering from myriad heart problems, and they seem to be more prone to lung cancer. A study released Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that a gene thought to cause lung cancer...
...force of these grim tidings is tempered by the knowledge that U.S. government agencies have been working alongside the country's most prestigious research facilities to conjure up ways of dealing with these hurtling rocks should an asteroid ever establish itself as a threat. "Once they've identified the asteroid," Jaroff says, "scientists can predict years, even decades ahead of time whether it will intersect the Earth's orbit at a moment when the Earth is there." And should scientists discover such a scenario looming on the horizon, Jaroff says there are many ways to engage, deflect or destroy...
...food than the food itself weighed--so a person devouring a pound of particularly rich chocolate couldn't put on more than 1 lb. That sort of theorizing runs in the family and may be one of our problems. When I began to weigh myself regularly during a particularly grim January some years ago, I proposed an industry standard that allowed subtracting 14 lbs. for clothing...