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...decade, women who were battling breast cancer with conventional medicines and had run out of treatment options. "In their exhaustion and desperation, they were trying to find an alternative treatment that was not so harsh," says Cohen, who often prescribed herbs to be prepared as teas to ease the side effects of chemo and hormone therapy. But the patients' oncologists, says Cohen, discouraged them from trying anything new. "They'd say Chinese medicine was quackery and that there was no evidence it worked," he says. Still, Cohen observed that many of the women to whom he gave Chinese herbs, including...
Women with breast cancer have typically sought Chinese medical herbalists for relief from the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation or to strengthen and balance their immune systems; some have even hoped for a cure. Some women may have been helped; others not. But with so many variables - the broad range of patients, quality and potency of the herbs available, types of formulations prescribed and the expertise of the herbalist - outcomes in informal settings were never a sure thing. And it's the same kind of variability that has made clinical research so problematic. "Even though people are very interested...
...donor made it clear that he had this hope of a better Brazil on the public service side, and that one way to advance his own objective was to make it possible for Harvard to advance that goal,” Dominguez said...
...Harvard defense stonewalled a PEI surge and punched the puck out of the zone, it was picked up by freshman forward Matt McCollem. McCollem took the puck from center ice to paydirt, employing an athletic move to weave between two Panther defenders before depositing the puck in the left side of the net. “It was just a great individual effort by him and a really pretty goal to watch,” co-captain Mike Taylor said. Just five minutes later, another underclassman was able to light the lamp. Forward Michael Biega, younger brother of sophomore defenseman...
...other side of this election season, we have front-runners such as Sen. Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani. Clinton won’t admit her vote to authorize the war in Iraq was a mistake. She rejects all questions involving hypothetical situations, and refuses to offer specifics on how she would make social security financially solvent. Romney has shifted his opinion on abortion, gay marriage and everything in between. When asked why his sons were not serving in the armed forces, he responded that they were helping their country by campaigning for him. Giuliani has tried to bolster...