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...results of that study, called the Denosumab Hormone Ablation Bone Loss Trial (HALT), were especially welcomed by cancer doctors, since it was the first study to show that a drug can lower the risk of fractures in men with prostate cancer. So far, most trials of osteoporosis treatments have focused on postmenopausal women, who are at high risk of bone loss with the sudden drop in estrogen that occurs after menopause...
...second trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine included 7,868 postmenopausal women between the ages of 60 and 90, who were also given either a placebo or injections of denosumab every six months for 36 months. Compared with the placebo group, the treated patients in this study had a 68% lower risk of vertebral fracture and a 40% lower risk of hip fracture over three years. Overall, 2.3% of women receiving denosumab had a spine fracture and 0.7% had a hip fracture, compared with 7.2% and 1.2% in the placebo group, respectively. (Read "Osteoarthritis: Not Just...
...attack the very legitimacy of the theocracy. The immediate triggers for street protests, however, vary and are often tied to significant dates; for instance, in the past week demonstrators marched to protest the inauguration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a second term, to object to the renewed mass trial of political dissidents and, on another occasion, simply to take advantage of a religious holiday when many devout Basij members would be in mosques. (See pictures of the Basiji terror in plain clothes...
...outcome of the trial was unsurprising. "I'm afraid the verdict will be painfully obvious," Suu Kyi was heard to say in court last month. But she isn't going to prison. According to recent reports, she was stockpiling Winston Churchill's biographies and other books in anticipation of jail time. "If you are going through hell," Britain's wartime leader famously said, "keep going." Suu Kyi and her supporters can do little else...
...Read "Viewpoint: Putting Burma's Junta on Trial...