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...results are now in and should reassure a lot of women. There is still no scientific justification for the long-term use of hormones after menopause to prevent such conditions as heart disease or dementia. But a shorter course of estrogen--seven years or less--is safe enough with respect to breast cancer and other health risks that it's a reasonable option for the treatment of severe menopausal symptoms. In other words, says Marcia Stefanick, one of the lead researchers, since there is no overriding safety concern, "the focus should be on your individual risk...
When Arts introduced the “Bestsellers” subsection for shorter reviews of popular books, I thought for sure that I would soon be reading something on “The Da Vinci Code.” But half of spring semester went by and no intrepid writer has stepped...
Walt’s term as academic dean will be one year shorter than that of his predecessor, Frederick Schauer, who held the post from...
Walt’s term as academic dean will be one year shorter than that of his predecessor, Frederick Schauer, who held the post from...
...seeing something of an epidemic of potentially lethal Type 2 diabetes, once known as the adult-onset version of the disease, among children as young as 10 and 11. "Without some intervention, this is the first generation of young Americans, being born today, who are expected to have a shorter life span than their parents or grandparents," says Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a Republican, who wrote a book about his 110-lb. weight loss and made a healthy America his top priority as chairman of the National Governors Association. That prediction of diminishing life expectancy was published last year...