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Sources--Good News: Urology (7/01). Bad News: Journal of the AMA (7/11/01), Lancet (7/14/01), Journal of Clinical Oncology (7/15/01...
...seems, my sacrifice may have been in vain. According to a study published in the latest issue of the medical journal Lancet, thick high heels may be just about as bad for your legs as ravishing but reedy stilettos. Researchers found that while women who wore stick-thin heels were more likely to develop problems in their feet, including tendinitis and bone deformities, women who pulled on thick heels were more likely than their more fashionable brethren to develop serious and potentially debilitating knee problems...
...There have been a lot of changes in blood testing, and technology has moved on," says John Scurr, a consultant vascular surgeon at London's Middlesex Hospital, who will coordinate the research. In a previous study, results of which are soon to be published in the medical journal the Lancet, Scurr conducted research he says "showed that some people develop clots after flying" but didn't pinpoint the reason. In the upcoming project, which Scurr hopes will be completed by year's end, about 40 volunteers will be used to "see if there is a relationship between the cabin environment...
Sources: Good News--FDA; New England Journal of Medicine (2/1/01); Bad News--Circulation (1/30/01); the Lancet (2/3/01...
...separate report published in November in Lancet, the British medical journal, said that children are more at risk than adults to suffer "memory loss, sleeping disorder and headaches" from using mobile phones. About 10 million children in the U.S. from ages 10 to 19, or 25% of those in that age group, own a wireless phone, according to the Yankee Group, a Boston-based technology-research firm. Think that's high? The proportion is far greater in other count-ries. In Germany, for instance, the figure is 30%; in Finland...