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...results of that study, called the Denosumab Hormone Ablation Bone Loss Trial (HALT), were especially welcomed by cancer doctors, since it was the first study to show that a drug can lower the risk of fractures in men with prostate cancer. So far, most trials of osteoporosis treatments have focused on postmenopausal women, who are at high risk of bone loss with the sudden drop in estrogen that occurs after menopause...
...last year but only by finding a renter to live in their Las Vegas home. Now they live in the suburb of Eagle. The neighborhood, with 11 decorated model homes and four sold houses, sits like a ghost town; both the building and the selling have ground to a halt. "We were supposed to have another neighbor, but his financing didn't come through," says Vinny. It's not the neighborhood full of life he had imagined his children growing up in. "Everybody just pushed the pause button," says Russell Dane, president of the Ada County Association of Realtors...
...Maybe it's the mother in me, or the experience I've had with small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention: don't give it to them.' HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. Secretary of State, likening North Korea's refusal to halt its nuclear activities to the behavior of a disobedient child...
...Ahmadinejad reasserted his hawkish foreign policy position but was otherwise relatively low-key, adding that he would "spare no effort to safeguard the frontiers of Iran." The remark was most likely a reference to Israel's threats to bomb Iran's uranium-enrichment facilities if the country does not halt its nuclear weapons program...
...sites across the country, met with political leaders and gave an interview on national television, all with the insistence that his visit had no political agenda. But some observers are skeptical, saying the patriarch was actually in the country to throw spiritual weight behind the Kremlin's attempts to halt Ukraine's move toward Europe and keep it within Russia's sphere of influence. "We've seen more of a Russian state official than a religious figure," says Olexandr Paliy, a historian at the Institute of Foreign Policy at the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Diplomatic Academy. "The Church...