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...flashes and insomnia but also a greater chance of worse conditions, such as heart disease and a weakening of the bones called osteoporosis. Over the years, pharmaceutical companies have developed pills designed to replace the hormones the women have lost, and these drugs have come into wide use. Now, however, new questions are being raised about their safety. Although the evidence is far from conclusive, a major study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that at least some of the post-menopause medication may increase the risk of breast cancer...
...data are not conclusive enough to warrant any immediate change in the way we approach hormone replacement." Dr. I. Craig Henderson of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston notes that estradiol, the estrogen implicated in the Swedish report, is not the same as the estrogens most commonly used in the U.S. "While women should not conclude yet that they are totally without risk," he says, "it is highly likely that the estrogen American women use may be safer for a longer period of time than the estrogen used in Sweden...
...subsidy for corporate borrowing, which now distorts investment decisions and encourages the use of debt for speculative purposes...
...well insured to receive the drug. Some state Medicaid programs pay for AIDS treatment only when the disease is far advanced. People who take AZT to stall the onset of AIDS may not be covered. Burroughs Wellcome Co., which manufactures AZT, is now seeking FDA clearance to use the medication in pre-AIDS patients. If the Federal Government permits the number of consumers to go up, presumably the price will come down...
...ambassadors and military commanders set in motion literally hundreds of probes and pressures to pinch off the terrorist acts, perhaps the most comprehensive network ever stitched together so quickly and so quietly. That is much harder work than going to war, and the returns are not yet in. The use of force may still be the only effective answer. Bush's exercise of power is another experiment in the new world that he inherited and that continues to evolve before our eyes...