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...breast, and an increasing number of women are choosing to excise the unaffected breast, just to be safe. Numerous studies have documented the reduction in breast-cancer recurrence in women who elect to remove both breasts, but until now, no studies had confirmed that this decision actually increases a woman's overall chance of survival...
...give clinicians a bit of solid ground for counseling their patients. "We have not had real data to guide us," says Dr. Isabelle Bedrosian, the study's lead author and an assistant professor in the department of surgical oncology at MD Anderson. "We can't sit down with a woman and say, 'If you do this, this is your expected benefit.' And when we don't have those data, then biases become the big drivers of decisionmaking...
...He’s an attractive man and he stands for the things I believe, so I was like, ‘He’s the one,’” recalls Marques, a slender woman with a bright smile and quiet demeanor...
...Palin and her defenders could argue that Friedman is simply one woman with Down and cannot decide for everyone - disabled or not - what is and is not offensive. That response, by the way, would have the advantage of being correct. But it would also implicitly undermine Palin's claim to authority. She would then be just one more military mom, one more teen mom's mother - one more hopeful pol looking for attention. (See the fashion looks of Sarah Palin...
...Both pro-life and pro-choice politicians are interpreting that absence to mean that the White House supports using the abortion provision authored by Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson, which became part of the Senate version of health reform. The Nelson language, less restrictive than Stupak's, would allow a woman receiving federal subsidies to purchase insurance from a plan that covers abortions, but those subsidies must be segregated and not used to pay for abortion procedures...