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...Resnick, who wrote the paper, believes testosterone may interfere with the production of the plaques and tangles associated with the devastating brain disorder. If she's right, her study is certain to increase demand for testosterone prescriptions. About 800,000 American men take prescription testosterone, in some cases to treat hypogonadism (abnormally low testosterone levels), in others to boost normal testosterone levels in hopes of increasing muscle mass or athletic performance. Most doctors, acutely aware of the problems female hormone-replacement therapy caused for women, are cautious about advising anyone to take testosterone supplements - even to ward off Alzheimer...
Olivardia emphasizes the importance of reaching out for help. “Treatment can be very effective,” he says. “The longer you wait, the longer it is going to be to treat.” If you suspect someone has a problem, “emphasize the other things you like about this person, besides their appearance” or to confront them and point them towards ECHO or Harvard’s mental health services...
Foodies Gone Wild Want to take a favorite baked treat from your kitchen to the supermarket aisle? Here's what you can learn from those who are making the leap...
...even set out to be a scientist. He majored in history at Brandeis and originally planned to be a journalist but ended up getting a Ph.D. in physics instead. By the mid-1980s, some of his colleagues had decided that the answer to Einstein's failed dream was to treat the building blocks of matter--quarks, photons, electrons and such--as minuscule, vibrating strings of energy rather than as particles. But superstring theory was considered no more than an esoteric and eccentric subspecialty until Witten (by this time a full professor at Princeton) turned his attention to it. Before long...
...least that's what doctors used to think. But Dr. Paul Ridker has changed that and the way doctors treat heart disease. A cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, he has spent the past decade exposing an alliance between the infection-fighting immune system and heart disease that could finally explain one of the biggest health puzzles in recent decades: If cholesterol is such a major contributor to the nation's No. 1 killer, why do half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels...