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...graduates can steer their careers where job growth is strong - education, health care and nonprofit programs like Teach for America, says Trudy Steinfeld, a career counselor at New York University. "Every college degree is not cookie cutter. It's what you have done during that degree to distinguish yourself...
...draw the line at saying it can reduce cancer incidence or mortality. "There is no take-home message here to go out and eat as much soy as you can," says Dr. Larry Norton, medical director of the Evelyn Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...
...developed recurrent tumors, the study looked retrospectively at women's self-determined soy-eating habits. The randomized clinical trial is the gold standard upon which medical practice is determined, and the only kind of trial that gives scientists confidence that other variables are not confounding their results. In the new study, for example, the authors note that the women eating the highest amounts of soy were also more likely to have received chemotherapy to treat their disease and to eat vegetables and exercise regularly - all factors that may contribute to lower breast-cancer risk. Shu and her colleagues adjusted...
...new mammography guidelines in TIME's Top 10 Everything...
...New Mammography Guidelines It usually takes a Washington scandal to put the discussion of women's breasts on political agendas, but in November it was a routine update of breast-cancer-screening guidelines by a government panel of medical advisers that stirred up a furor. Based on new calculations weighing the risks and benefits of routine screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new recommendations advised women to begin routine mammograms at age 50 instead of 40 and to switch from yearly to biennial screenings; it also advised women to eliminate breast self-exams altogether. Doctors, patients, cancer advocacy...