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Under the headline "DHEA Gets Respect," the Harvard Health Letter last July listed other preliminary trials in humans and animals. They involve the impact of DHEA on such disorders as lupus, skin cancer and diabetes. One of the experimenters, Dr. Raymond Daynes, a University of Utah pathologist, had some advice for consumers who might flock to health-food stores for DHEA supplements. "What is sold in health-food stores is garbage," he said, noting that these pills carry only enough DHEA to affect a "small mouse...
...negotiations between women's attorneys and U.S. implant manufacturers. About 90,000 women who underwent the implant operation stand to get paid between $105,000 to $1.4 million each depending on their age and health. The implants were alleged to have caused a number of ailments including breast cancer, lupus and scleroderma, a progressive disease affecting skin and organ tissues...
...Contrary to recent anecdotal evidence, women with silicone or saline breast implants do not have a greater risk of developing connective-tissue diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, a new study shows...
...about life, the universe and high school. (Yeah, I know that adds up to three-halves of a vocal line. When I'm in this kind of mood I tend to let these things go.) Almost all the best noisy bands still around (Frances Gumm, for example, or Circus Lupus) are indebted to Honor Role in some way; aMINIATURE, who are one of the best, are also more indebted than most. The guitar sound on Depth Five Rate Six is thicker--"grungier," if you will--than Dinty Moore's Beef Stew, thicker than you get on most metal records...
...arguments against the dubious proposition that television violence is an important cause of real violence in America are legion, and fairly obvious. Somali children gleefully fire grenades at clan rivals, while Bosnians and Serbs rape and kill each other, all without encouragement from television. Homo homini lupus--"man is a wolf to man"--was Plautus' lament long before NYPD Blue...