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...touched by another human. "We shouldn't put too much weight on its benefits, but at the same time we should make it available to everyone," he says. "Massage does decrease anxiety, reliably. It does decrease pain in a number of people with chronic-pain syndrome. It does improve mood. Exactly how it does it, I don't think we know...
...been said that you can gauge her mood by whether her hair is straight (foul) or curly (ebullient). These days her mane is growing wild, with good reason. She and her husband, New York Times reporter Bernard Weinraub, have their first child, and with hits like Panic Room, Spider-Man and Men in Black II, the chairman of Sony's Columbia Pictures has generated more than $1 billion at the box office this year. Some in Hollywood are skeptical about the profitability of films with such expensive stars and special effects, but her summer slate of pictures has broken...
...should women panic if they are using HRT for short-term relief of menopausal miseries. For in a strange sort of way, the study brings HRT back to the basics, doing what it always did best--alleviating intense hot flashes, night sweats and mood swings during the limited period in which they occur. "Estrogens," says Dr. Howard Judd of UCLA, one of the WHI principal investigators, "are still the best, and in many ways the only, way of treating menopause...
...doesn't mean HRT is worthless for all women. Even Petitti acknowledges that HRT has a role to play in treating what she calls "the acute symptoms of menopause"--which is what the vast majority of women who take it are using it for. These symptoms include hot flashes, mood swings, sleep difficulties and vaginal dryness. If you are a woman who is having difficulties with the onset of menopause and find that HRT relieves your symptoms, there is no reason to stop, at least for now. But after the symptoms subside, usually within a year or two, ask your...
...colleague jokingly refers to Osterman as the Black Widow for her stealthy effectiveness. She concedes that she makes it a priority in meetings to read her counterparts' body language and mood. "I'm not sure if that's a female way of doing things--it's just mine," she says. "I'm just working out how to get what I want...