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...Heart Association, which released new dietary recommendations earlier this month. For the first time, the A.H.A. has recommended that everyone eat two 3-oz. servings of fatty fish a week. But the A.H.A.'s expert panel wasn't ready to declare that taking omega-3 all by itself, in pill form, will protect your heart. It's just too easy to get more omega-3 than you need from pills, and the panel was worried that an excess could trigger serious side effects, such as internal bleeding...
...studies to date. Doctors in Italy randomly divided 11,000 heart-attack patients into four groups. All were given standard medical care, but some took a fish-oil capsule every day, while others received 300 mg of vitamin E, or vitamin E and fish oil, or just a placebo pill. After two years, only those patients who took fish-oil supplements reduced their risk of dying from a second heart attack, by an average of 17%. Vitamin E had no effect...
...Abortion Pill...
...story of Amy, who took the abortion pill because she believes her family is not settled enough to have another baby, was terrifying. She has a four-year-old son and a good marriage. Financially they are well off, considering they are renovating their home. But the gift of a baby, a new life, is unsettling to them. It is even more unsettling to think that now anyone who feels like Amy, that a baby may make things less simple, can take the RU 486 abortion pill and end a life. What has happened to our society? BETH BOWMAN Manhattan...
...Women's Hospital about prescribing the drug and is waiting to hear their opinion. We ask that UHS present the strongest possible case to these doctors that RU-486 be prescribed at UHS, and that gynecologists at Brigham and Women's provide surgical abortions for students if the pill fails. We hope the doctors at Brigham and Women's will understand the importance of making RU-486 available and accessible to women on campus. Students should be able to be prescribed RU-486 by their regular doctor at UHS, not have to make three trips into Boston to meet with...