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• Medicalization is the New Happy Hour

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  The Huffington Post Elissa Stein Author, pop culture historian, social media participant Posted: December 17, 2009 12:07 PM This week The New York Times ran a disturbing article about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and menopause , talking about how, for decades, women were pitched a message of decreased ...
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• Progesterone Injection Linked to Reduction in Breast Cancer Death Rates

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  MediaIndia December 15, 2009 A study conducted by the doctors of Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital says that an injection of progesterone can help bring about a 30% reduction in breast cancer death rates. The best part is that this injection costs just Rs 100. Dr Indraneel Mittra of department of ...
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• Menopause: Marketing Fear

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  The Huffington Post by Susan Kim Playwright, TV writer. Author: “Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation” w/Elissa Stein Posted: December 15, 2009 04:11 PM Years ago, I spoke with a retired advertising executive of the Mad Men school, who confided that the key to a good pitch lay in the skillful ...
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• NMSU’s lone toxicologist tries to find the rhythm of breast cancer

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  Las Cruces Sun News By Susan Prosoco For the Sun-News Posted: 12/14/2009 12:00:00 AM MST LAS CRUCES — After new epidemiological research found an increased risk of breast cancer associated with altered sleep patterns, a New Mexico State University researcher decided to further investigate the 24-hour ...
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• What Are the Risks for Breast Implants?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 166
  There are more and more women than ever getting breast implants. These numbers keep increasing each year as well and the ages of the women that are receiving the implants are getting younger and younger too. There are many pre adult girls that are getting the permission from their parents to have this [...]
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• Menopause, as Brought to You by Big Pharma

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  The New York Times By NATASHA SINGER and DUFF WILSON Published: December 12, 2009 MILLIONS of American women in the 1990s were told they could help their bodies ward off major illness by taking menopausal hormone drugs . Some medical associations said so. Many gynecologists and physicians said so. Respected ...
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• Cancer guidelines anger survivors

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  The Detroit News Advocates slam proposals for later, fewer screenings Kim Kozlowski December 10, 2009 After a decade of breast self-examinations, Cathy Sullivan discovered a lump at age 40. Tests later confirmed she had breast cancer. Following surgery and treatment, Sullivan is now cancer-free. But she wonders ...
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• MRI and mammography diagnoses breast cancer at earlier stages

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Washington, Dec 11 (ANI): Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) together with mammography can diagnose almost all cancers early, greatly reducing the occurrence of advanced stage breast cancer in high-risk women, a new study has found.Ellen Warner, medical oncologist in the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical ...
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• Myth Monday: Plastic bottles and breast cancer

  
  Good for You! — Authority: 124
  Email forwards. If you’re a woman, you probably receive a boatload of email forwards from friends, aunts, and work colleagues. These chain mail messages often overflow with quotes, graphics, and second- or twelfth-hand stories warning you about some danger of daily life.Well-meaning though they are, email forwards, ...
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• Hormone Replacement Therapy Tied to Mental Benefits

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  ABC News by Amy Norton December 4, 2009 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women who use certain forms of hormone replacement therapy seem to perform better on tests of memory and mental speed than other women do, a new study finds. In a four-year study of 3,130 French women age 65 and older, researchers found that ...
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• A new verdict for hormone therapy (HT): Safe for younger, symptomatic women

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  JAAPA Janie L. Knotts, PA-C; William A. Childers Jr, MS, PA-C December 02, 2009 Clinicians are accustomed to treating patients who have medical illnesses; however, managing the symptoms associated with menopause—a natural, biologic process—is quite different. Hormone therapy (HT) using estrogen either with or ...
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• Health Tips For Breast Cancer Patients

  
  Health Care Media Center — Authority: 130
  When you are going through breast cancer, it is an emotionally and physically trying time. Many forms of cancer treatment only add to the problem as they work toward curing the cancer. Radiation treatments, for example, can cause a great deal of fatigue and it can take up to two months for your normal levels of ...
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• Compo verdicts bad news for Pfizer

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  ABC News Australia By Madeline Genner for PM N0vember 24, 2009 A US woman has been awarded more than $80 million in punitive damages and more than $4 million in compensation after she developed breast cancer. She argued successfully that her breast cancer was linked to a hormone replacement drug. In a second ...
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• Women, Compliance And Medicine

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  The Huffington Post November 24, 2009 by Susan Kim  Playwright, TV writer. Author: “Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation” w/Elissa Stein When I was a teenager, I was a candy striper at my local hospital. This was admittedly not from a selfless desire to help others, but was a desperate attempt to bulk up ...
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• Easy Blood Test Boosts Clarity of Breast MRI In Premenopausal Women

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  Med India November 24, 2009 A study has determined that a simple blood test corresponding to the follicular phase (days 3-14) of a normal menstrual cycle could reduce repeated breast MRI scans in premenopausal women with irregular periods. The test could aid in optimal scheduling of MRI scans in ...
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• Cancer Confusion for Women

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  The Huffington Post Roseanne Colletti Emmy Award Winning Correspondent Posted: November 22, 2009 07:43 PM I don’t know about you, but I’m confused. Who is telling me the truth about mammograms and Pap smears? A federal panel says women can wait until 50 for yearly mammograms. A group representing ...
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• Cancer industry abandons science to keep pushing mammograms that harm women

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  Natural News Monday, November 23, 2009 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger The cancer industry has blatantly abandoned science these past two weeks by insisting women under 50 should receive annual mammograms even though the industry’s own scientific task force concluded that such screenings result in too many false ...
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• A Breast Surgeons Comment on the New Screening Guidelines

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 142
  by Alisan B. Goldfarb, M.D., F.A.C.S. As a practicing breast surgeon and member of the Medical Advisory Board of Womens Voices for Change, I was asked to review the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)s recommendation statement discouraging routine screening and regular breast self-exams. I think folly is ...
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• Early detection decreases death rate from breast cancer

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 114
  The recent brouhaha created by the ill timed, ill worded, ill phrased (or is it just ill) report from the USPSTF (US Preventative Services Task Force) has stirred the pot to be sure.  We support individualized treatment of patients.  We applaud the tailoring of medical testing and procedures to individual needs and ...
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• The Myth of the Mammogram

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  Why many American women are resolutely rejecting the new mammogram recommendations, despite mixed reaction in the medical community. Newsweek By Pat Wingert | Newsweek Web Exclusive Nov 20, 2009 Most adult women know a woman in her 40s who was diagnosed with breast cancer and died. So the news this week ...
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