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Ford said that the University does not condoneSlope Day, but does provide some portablebathrooms to prevent the restrooms in nearbybuildings from becoming congested...
...Helene Wilson, the decision to participate in a clinical trial of tamoxifen took no thought at all. Scientists at the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health wanted to know if the drug, used for 25 years to treat breast cancer, could prevent the disease. The question was of more than academic interest to Wilson, 48, a North Wales, Pa., nurse and mother of two. Four close relatives, including her mother and grandmother, had died of breast cancer at an early age. Wilson herself had a history of benign lumps in her breast. She was, her doctor once...
Perhaps now she has been defused. Last week researchers announced that they were halting the study 13 months early. Reason: tamoxifen, they've learned, does indeed prevent breast cancer. It's the first drug ever shown to do so. Said Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the NIH, in announcing the results: "This is a big deal...
That being the case, Fisher and other researchers wondered whether this cell-starvation process could prevent breast cancer from taking hold in the first place. Thus in 1992 they began the federally funded, 13,388-participant, $50 million study of women at especially high risk; being over 60 was a qualification by itself. Participants could also be included if they had a combination of two or more close relatives who had had the disease, a first child late in life, and several previous biopsies of suspicious lumps...
FOLATE FOR ALL A new recommendation for women of childbearing age: take a daily supplement of 400 micro-grams of folic acid, a B vitamin, to prevent birth defects. A separate study finds that eating cereal fortified with 400 mcg of folic acid can lower a man's blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease...