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...should women panic if 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...
...were so bad she thought she was dying. "I was aching all over and crying all the time," she recalls. "At one point I was cutting a man's hair when, out of the blue, I had to fight back tears." Fulbright tried alternative remedies, like yam creams, but relief came only when she tried Prempro four months ago. "It was like a miracle," Fulbright says. "I was back to my normal self...
...Among many Israelis, the latest round of attacks has affirmed the belief that any relief from terror attacks achieved by reoccupying Palestinian cities is, at best, only temporary. But most of those same Israelis believe their government has no alternative to the occupations. Before Tuesday, Israel had gone 26 days without an attack on its civilian population - almost a record. Their limited options for transforming the situation, however, leave few Israelis expecting the record for days of calm - for Israelis if not for Palestinians - to be broken any time soon...
...executive for governmental, regulatory and international affairs and compares the job to "playing 3-D global chess." A former corporate lawyer in New York City, she worked closely with then Transportation Secretary Andy Card, currently the White House chief of staff, and in 1992 helped coordinate federal disaster-relief efforts after Hurricane Andrew. She then went to work for United Airlines, now the world's second largest carrier, after American Airlines, and has been its voice in Washington--and foreign capitals--since...
...Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf condemned the incident and ordered $8,200 to be given to the family for immediate relief. On receiving the money, Mai said she wanted it to be used to build a school in the village. "For the girls," she told a government minister, "because they must no longer remain enclosed in darkness...