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...trusted to keep his word -- a rare quality in the politics of the Middle East. Hussein's moderation, and the respect he enjoyed among friend and foe, made him the pivotal figure in the most recent turn of the peace process, when he rose from his sickbed at the Mayo clinic to coax Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu to conclude a deal at the Wye River talks...
Until now. Last week physicians from the Mayo Clinic reported that 639 women, all facing a moderate to high risk of developing breast cancer, underwent prophylactic mastectomies from 1960 to 1993 and reduced their chances of dying from the malignancy at least 90%. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has received so much attention that it could spark an increase in the number of preventive mastectomies. Currently, according to Dr. Kenneth Kern, a surgical oncologist at the University of Connecticut Health Center and Hartford Hospital, perhaps a few hundred such operations are performed nationwide each year...
...before you or a loved one decide to add to that number, it pays to understand some key statistics--starting with that 90% reduction in deaths. The Mayo investigators derived the figure from statistical models and from the death rate of the patients' sisters, who did not undergo the operation but presumably faced the same cancer risk. The deaths among the untreated sisters led doctors to predict that there should have been 20 deaths from breast cancer in the research subjects. In fact, after the mastectomies, there were only two deaths...
CALISTA FLOCKHART It's just nerves! New Mayo Clinic study shows fidgeting prevents weight gain...
...Although its library is inferior to that of Turner Classic Movies, amc is more fun to watch. Here you see the unfamiliar Jeff Chandler or Virginia Mayo films that are often deliciously bad but can be crudely fascinating and say much about the times in which they were made. All this, and George Clooney's dad Nick as a host...