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...overall risk of cancer, for instance, among women taking estrogen and progestin, comes to three extra cases per 1000 women per year. For breast cancer, the study found one extra case per 1000 women per year. "It's helpful to translate the findings into absolute cases," notes Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "So for women who are having distressing menopausal symptoms, who are not sleeping, they are going to get quality of life benefits and it's important for them to understand what the absolute risks...
...study, which was published this month in the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Journal, showed that middle-aged women who regularly drank low-fat milk have a significantly lower chance of having hypertension risks than women who didn’t drink milk on a daily basis. JoAnn E. Manson ’75, a Medical School professor and the chair of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that she and her colleagues started working on the study in 1992 with the hope of understanding the role of diet and other factors...
...B?te est Morte (The Beast is Dead) - which uses animals to tell the story of World War II - Art Spiegelman brought the graphic novel worldwide recognition by winning a Pulitzer prize in 1992 for his Holocaust saga, Maus. Eisner and Spiegelman's heirs now litter the globe, from Frenchman Joann Sfar (The Rabbi's Cat) to Iranian Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis). "From Superman to the Rabbi's Cat" pays homage to these artists, inviting the viewer to consider the subtexts at work even in comic books about men in tights...
...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...