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CANCER AND THE PILL...
...years scientists have been worried that the sex hormones in birth control pills might increase a woman's risk of breast cancer. A comprehensive survey of 9,000 women concludes that this is not the case. The study, which went back to the first generation of women to take oral contraceptives, found that those who did had no greater risk of developing breast cancer than those who didn't. It made no difference when the women first took the Pill, how long they took it, the dose or even whether breast cancer ran in their family. Concerns still linger, however...
...unglamorous personal-care item that hasn't received a designer makeover. Carefree's feminine protection panty liners are available in black for the woman who wants to color-coordinate every aspect of her outfit. This month Ortho Tri-Cyclen makes it easier to pop its birth control pill without embarrassment, offering cases by fashion designer Nicole Miller created to look like makeup compacts, with such names as Red High Heels and Zebra Kiss...
...firm. Please, No Equitygate H Private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst is hiring former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to help it build a European strategy. Hey, it worked for Nixon. Aggressive Treatment It might be time for the drug industry to pop an anti-anxiety pill. Twenty-nine U.S. states sued Bristol-Myers Squibb, alleging it blocked cheaper versions of its breast-cancer drug Taxol. The Banking Blues UBS Warburg will cut 10% of its London investment bankers because of the industry-wide downturn in trading. This is only the latest round of cuts...
...antidepressant fluoxetine (Sarafem) to treat PMDD. Now sertraline (Zoloft) has also been given the nod largely on the strength of Yonkers' study of 200 women with PMDD. That research, first published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed Zoloft to be significantly more effective than a sugar pill...