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...with any major medical announcements, there are caveats and complications. The WHI wasn't designed to look at short-term use during menopause, for instance. But the principal message is this: taking estrogen and progestin for years in the hope of preventing a heart attack or stroke can no longer be considered a valid medical strategy. (For a detailed look at the pros and cons of hormone therapy for various conditions, see the chart on pages...
DIED. HENRY (BUDDY) CIANFRANI, 79, flamboyant Democratic strategist and former Pennsylvania state senator who won back an old ward-leader seat in 1988 after serving 27 months in jail in the late '70s on racketeering charges; after a stroke in May; in Philadelphia. His romance with his future wife, journalist Laura Foreman, who covered him at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times, led Times executive editor A.M. Rosenthal to ask for Foreman's resignation in 1977, reportedly saying, "It's O.K. to f___ elephants, just don't cover the circus...
...saris. Indians invested by the millions in his Bombay-listed Reliance Industries, a sprawling conglomerate with $12.3 billion in annual sales that recently became India's first privately owned entrant to the Fortune 500. When Ambani died on July 6 at age 69 after nearly two weeks in a stroke-induced coma, the country's media recounted his rags-to-riches life as an Indian morality play...
...frosh pulled off the victory despite losing stroke Bob Kubis to stomach illness just two hours before the start time. Senior Graham O’Donoghue, the stroke of the Harvard ‘B’ coxed four, was asked to serve as replacement just hours after his Britannia Cup race...
...Louis baseball club hasn't released many details about Kile's medical history other than to say he passed a routine physical during spring training. (It apparently was unaware that the ballplayer's father had died from a stroke after suffering a heart attack at age 44.) Kile's examination probably included an electrocardiogram (ECG), which gives doctors an indirect reading on how well the heart muscle is working by monitoring its electrical activity...