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Just before 82-year-old Sigmund Freud was allowed to leave German-occupied Austria in 1938, the SS insisted he sign a statement claiming he had been treated well. He complied with a flourish: "I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone." This defiant and, under the circumstances, risky display of contempt was typical of the man who invented psychoanalysis. Throughout his life, Freud sought to maintain control. In his final hours, suffering through the last stages of throat cancer in 1939, he told the physician who had accompanied him to England to "make...
Picnic is a play that has little to recommend it. Despite its bland script and spiceless acting, it's as likely to cause indigestion as a jalapeno sundae...
Since there are no symptoms until cervical cancer is advanced, Pap smears are the only way to detect the malignancy early. Some gynecologists recommend the test every six months for women with more than one sexual partner, and more frequently for those who have had warts. Even when the warts disappear spontaneously or are medically removed, the underlying viral infection -- and therefore the risk of cancer -- may persist. Hoping to reduce that risk, doctors are testing the antiviral substance interferon in adults with severe warts, and efforts to produce a vaccine are also under way. But no solution is close...
Eddy's findings tend to undermine the recommendations of both the American Cancer Society and the American College of Radiology, which have suggested since 1983 that women undergo the procedure at least once between ages 35 and 40 as a basis for comparison with later mammograms, and then every year or two * between 40 and 49. But several other professional groups, including the American College of Physicians, have long chosen not to recommend screening by X rays for women under 50 except for those considered at high risk: women who have had breast cancer already or whose mothers or sisters...
...Committee decided to recommend to the Board of Overseers...