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...disaster. RU-486 can be given in a doctor's office rather than an abortion clinic, so protesters won't know where to set up their picket lines. The drug does have some serious drawbacks: it has to be taken within seven weeks of a woman's last menstrual period; it fails about 5% of the time; and it can have side effects, including cramping, nausea and severe bleeding. In Europe it is used for only about 20% of all abortions. But in the U.S., where women routinely run protest gauntlets at clinic doors, the percentage is expected...
...migraine results when tightened blood vessels in the brain repeatedly expand, squeeze surrounding nerves and then constrict again, resulting in excruciating pain that often leaves sufferers unable to function for days at a time. Migraines are triggered by a variety of sources, from caffeine to changes in weather to menstrual periods--catalysts, doctors believe, that result in a flood of serotonin that causes blood vessels in the brain to contract. Some of the more than 23 million Americans who suffer from migraines can find relief in a new drug, sumatriptan succinate, which blocks serotonin and prevents vessels from swelling initially...
...Women who undergo surgery for BREAST CANCER during the latter phase of the menstrual cycle--days 14 to 30--rather than during the first part of the cycle appear twice as likely to suffer a recurrence of the cancer, researchers have discovered...
Manson also cites legitimate concerns of researchers that the menstrual cycle would alter data or that fetuses would be harmed if pregnant women were used in studies...
...served her unsuspecting boyfriend a cat-food pie), but they would work just as well if Miller simply strolled down the aisles talking to guests the old-fashioned way. Least successful are Miller's opening monologues, which mimic those of countless female stand-up comics who joke endlessly about menstrual cramps and numskull boyfriends. (Miller's low so far: talking about a female runner on steroids, she quipped, "What tipped them off was that she forgot to put the toilet seat down...