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Category: Women's issues
Working with the body’s rhythms
The night belongs to asthma. If you’re one of America’s 10 million asthmatics, you may find that your symptoms vary like, well, night and day, with the odds of an attack vastly greater in the wee hours — about 4 a.m.– than in daylight. But if it’s heart attacks and strokes that worry you, early…
Getting a Fix on the Thyroid
Three years ago, Ruth Hertz, 66, a self-described “LOL” or little old lady, began feeling lousy. A normally avid tennis player, she found herself dragging around the court. “The tiredness sort of seemed to come on suddenly,” she recalled last week. In fact, Hertz, who lives in Framingham, was “more than tired. I was lethargic….
From Biotech to bees, new answers to MS
Kelly Ames, a staff assistant at Harvard Business School, is only 28 years old. But in the six years that she’s had MS, a neurological disease that causes loss of coordination, partial blindness, even paralysis, she’s tried nearly every remedy in sight. Drugs — steroids — helped some, she says, but she hated the side…
Fine-tuning the Pap Smear with Technology
The humble Pap test, a screening test so good that American women now die of cervical cancer at only one-fifth the rate of 50 years ago, is one of the best tools in modern medicine. Unlike mammograms, which detect breast cancers at an early stage, Pap tests spot abnormalities in cervical cells even before they become cancer. In fact,…
Drink up – or not?
Studies in women are at odds on alcohol’s risks and benefits Last May, a huge Harvard study of more than 85,000 women showed that moderate drinking — about one drink a day — lowers the overall risk of death, without apparently raising the odds of dying from breast cancer. Six weeks later, another big study…
For Some, Pregnancy Option Remains After Breast Cancer
It was early fall, 1993 — decision time for Ann Wheeler of Brookline. She was 42, a self-described “late bloomer,” and she had finally resolved that with or without her boyfriend’s assistance, she was going to get pregnant by spring and have the baby she’d dreamed of for years. Then her mother died. Two weeks…
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