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...Case Against the Pill, is widely credited with sparking the women's-health movement of the '70s. Pioneering author-activist Barbara Seaman began to research the high-estrogen birth-control pill after readers of her magazine column complained of painful symptoms. Seaman's book, which exposed side effects, including stroke, heart attack and depression, led to highly publicized Senate hearings and ultimately to mandated warning labels and patient-information inserts. She was 72 and had lung cancer...
...stopped taking their supplemental hormone therapy after 2002, when the study found that the treatment increased a woman's risk of breast cancer, and did not protect women from heart disease, as doctors had previously thought. But the WHI continued to follow these subjects for heart disease, various cancers, stroke, fractures and other causes of death. They found, to their surprise, that the women who had taken HT for three to eight years had a 12% greater risk of overall death than women who had been assigned a placebo pill...
...titles in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke as a sophomore and took home the 200 in her freshman year. Pangilinan’s path to Saturday’s race, a brilliant finish to her career for the Crimson, started four years ago, before she even took a stroke in Blodgett Pool. It was half a world away in Athens, Greece. In 2004, Pangilinan competed at the Summer Olympics. She represented the Philippines, where she holds two national records in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke. “I was so young. It was the first time...
Past studies have examined the link between sleep and stroke, but that research has focused mainly on people with sleep apnea, a disorder that causes interruptions in breathing or shallow breaths during sleep. In one study involving patients with severe sleep apnea (five or more episodes of apnea per hour), researchers found it was "significantly related to a two-fold increased risk of a stroke," says Bernadette Boden-Albala, lead author of the current study and assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons...
...limitations of [our sleepiness scale] is that we're not really able to differentiate what type of sleep disturbances these people were having." While the scale indicates that people are sleepy during the day and therefore not resting well at night, it doesn't say why. In terms of stroke and other vascular risks, says Boden-Albala, "The question really is, Is it sleep apnea or is it the physiological consequence of not getting enough sleep...