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...study is not, however, a free pass for estrogen therapy in all post-menopausal women. "These findings provide reassurance to recently menopausal women who are considering estrogen therapy for treatment of menopausal symptoms, that estrogen is not likely to have an adverse effect on the heart," says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and an author of the study. "But it does not mean that women should begin taking estrogen for the express purpose of preventing cardiovascular events because there are other risks of hormone therapy...
...night sweats and hot flashes associated with menopause--or essentially what the supplements were supposed to be used for in the first place. "We now have a more refined understanding of the role that age and timing of menopause have in affecting the benefits of hormone therapy," says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a co-author of the study, known as the Women's Health Initiative. "Timing does matter...
Ever since she took over as principal of Foothill High School two years ago, JoAnn Murphy has wanted to involve parents in their children's education. It's hardly an original notion, but considering that the 100 students at the Albuquerque school are all incarcerated juvenile offenders, her application to establish a Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) at the school was groundbreaking. "It showed that in all venues it's important to have parental involvement," says Anna Weselak, national PTA president...
...ensure that it did.”And at Dartmouth, tensions over the school’s former mascot—the Indian—have lingered for years, but a series of events brought the issue to the forefront of campus debate this fall.In November, Athletic Director JoAnn “Josie” Harper publicly apologized for inviting the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux hockey team to a tournament being held at Dartmouth.The University of North Dakota’s continuing use of a Native American mascot “is offensive and wrong...
...must offer a sincere apology to the Native American community, and the Dartmouth community as a whole, for an event that will understandably offend and hurt people within our community,” wrote JoAnn “Josie” Harper, Dartmouth’s director of athletics and recreation, in a letter to the editor published in The Dartmouth. “UND’s position is offensive and wrong...