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Though last week's news raises big questions for anyone on hormone-replacement therapy, women taking birth-control pills shouldn't panic. True, these pills also contain estrogen and progestin, but most women take them before menopause, when their bodies are making more of their own hormones. So it's quite possible that their bodies are better able to handle the excess. In any case, it's impossible to extrapolate from the WHI study...
...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...
...hardly your typical party drug. Produced by Ahmadabad-based Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Alprax (a.k.a alprazolam) is the generic version of Xanax, approved in the U.S. in 1981 to treat people suffering from anxiety disorders and panic attacks. The drug?which in India requires a doctor's prescription but is readily available from pharmacists without one?is generally considered to be safe when monitored by a knowledgeable doctor. But long-term users of Alprax?and of other tranquilizers containing benzodiazepine, the drug's active ingredient?can become dependent, hooked on the placid calm it imparts and needing to take it more...
...next five months, though, all manner of speculation, panic and pride will rain down on Giants centerfielder Hideki Matsui, 28, the free-agent slugger, two-time MVP and former batting champion who is called Godzilla "because I look so scary," he says. The 1.9 m, 95.3 kg Hideki bears the fortunate burden of playing for Japan's oldest, most successful team, an institution combining the prestige of the Yankees and the fan reverence accorded Notre Dame. The Giants always lead the league in attendance and give their stars a profile Ichiro could only have dreamed of when he played...
...over a wide area, a fatal dose is very difficult to deliver. Virtually all the fatalities would be caused by the explosion--tragic enough but nothing compared with a nuclear blast. The genius of a dirty bomb is the psychological terror it would trigger in a population conditioned to panic at the mere mention of radiation. The actual danger, however, has been overstated. According to the Federation of American Scientists, fallout from a bomb exploding in New York City that contained a 12-in. pencil-shaped rod of cobalt (like those used in food-irradiation machines) might increase the long...