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...truth is, we are on uncharted ground. Never before in history have so many women and men lived for so many years. Dilemmas exist today not because physicians have betrayed their patients but because patients and physicians alike are still learning about the many diseases that tend to occur beyond the age of 50. GEORGE RAYMOND TYNDALL, M.D. Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 2002 | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

Here's a tip: Don't get drunk and play with snakes. It seems obvious, but according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, a lot of snake attacks happen just that way: 98% of the more than 6,000 yearly snakebites in the U.S. occur on the extremities, most often on arms and hands when people try to handle or kill a snake; in many such cases intoxication is a factor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tourniquets Are Hisstory | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

With someone else bearing the burden of the golden fleece as the Tour sped through northern France, Armstrong settled in near the front of the peloton, where accidents are less likely to occur. (A near crash on July 13 cost him 27 seconds.) As expected, the Postal Service team didn't begin its express delivery until the first mountain stage, in the Pyrenees on July 18, when Armstrong was 26 seconds behind González de Galdeano. One by one the Posties burned themselves out and fell away like booster stages on a rocket launch as they led Armstrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Le Tour de Lance | 8/4/2002 | See Source »

...savory. After all, a British breakfast tradition is a kipper, a smoked herring. Waugh insists it's wrong to consider Krispy Kreme doughnuts merely a morningtime food. "That's the great thing about our product, they can be eaten throughout the day." In the U.S., 40% of its sales occur after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Like Hot Cakes | 8/4/2002 | See Source »

...they are using HRT for short-term relief of menopausal miseries. For in a strange sort of way, the study brings HRT back to the basics, doing what it always did best--alleviating intense hot flashes, night sweats and mood swings during the limited period in which they occur. "Estrogens," says Dr. Howard Judd of UCLA, one of the WHI principal investigators, "are still the best, and in many ways the only, way of treating menopause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About Hormones | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

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