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...therapy caused for women, are cautious about advising anyone to take testosterone supplements - even to ward off Alzheimer's. While the pros are still being worked out, the cons are real and troubling. Resnick is convinced that testosterone supplements can increase a man's risk of prostate cancer and stroke, despite a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine suggesting that the studies were not large enough to say for sure. Furthermore, the ideal levels of testosterone still need to be worked out. "An 80-year-old should probably not have the levels of a 20-year...
...with the proud bearing of a hereditary high chief, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who has died at 83 from the effects of a stroke, towered over Fijian politics for three decades. Trained as a civil servant under British colonial rule, he helped draft a constitution that gave equal status to ethnic Fijians and Indians and in 1970 became the independent nation's first Prime Minister. After a 1987 military coup ousted Mara's left-wing political rival, he resumed the prime ministership and assented to a new constitution favoring ethnic Fijians. (He later apologized to Indo-Fijians for doing...
Harvard finished the tournament with a two-day total of 604—just one stroke behind third place Rollins College and 14 strokes behind the champion Rams...
...more that doctors learn about a group of cholesterol-lowering medications called statins, the more they realize that the drugs' potential benefits may extend well beyond their proven ability to prevent heart attacks and include such things as lowering the risk of stroke or possibly even Alzheimer's disease. Now comes word that statins may help reduce damage from the most common cause of irreversible blindness among older adults in the U.S.--adult macular degeneration...
That's a scary thought. After crushing the 1997 Masters with a 12-stroke win to become, at 21, Augusta's youngest champion, Tiger went through a similar drought, going 28 months without winning a major. He followed that lag with the Tiger Slam: four straight titles, from the 2000 U.S. Open through the 2001 Masters. Like Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan before him, Tiger has blurred perspective. When only four golfers have won more majors than you have, at 28, honors like five straight Player of the Year awards are no longer good enough...