Word: stroke
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...hormone therapy must take both hormones because estrogen alone increases the risk of uterine cancer.) Two years later, the estrogen-only (Premarin) part of the trial, which focused on nearly 11,000 postmenopausal women who had undergone a hysterectomy, was stopped because of a slightly greater risk of stroke--although there was no overall boost in heart disease. Preliminary evidence at the time suggested that estrogen did not increase the women's risk of breast cancer. That was something of a surprise, so most researchers reserved judgment until the final analyses had been completed...
...seconds on Lake Carnegie. Recent Princeton-Harvard races, however, have been anything but one-sided, and Saturday’s race began as no exception. A Crimson varsity that had worked all week on racing more aggressively took off from the start with a solid first 20 strokes, jumping the senior-laden Tigers by three seats before both boats settled into the first 500. “Having raced them so much last year, we knew they are an incredibly good boat,” varsity five-seat Toby Medaris said. “We knew it was going...
...Debbi Amanti also led the way for Harvard by tying for third with a score of 157 for the tournament. On the second day, sophomore Jessica Hazlett posted a 76 on the second day of action. Harvard as a team had a 314—placing the Crimson one stroke ahead of Dartmouth and three in front of Brown. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...Crimson kept Dartmouth from adding any more to its lead in the opening half of the race.A midway push helped the Crimson gain four seats back, trimming the Dartmouth advantage to a mere two seats. Then the Big Green killed Harvard’s move, cranked the stroke rating, and responded with another move to gain back the four seats it had lost at the 1,000 meter mark. “We made a move and then just sat there—it’s extremely frustrating,” senior two-seat Wes Kauble said...
...officials and doctors gave her a tour, the corridors were lined with hundreds of staff, patients and families who cheered and waved flags. Teenagers laughed and gave each other high-fives for snatching good snaps of her with their mobile phones. Charles Anderson, who had suffered a mild stroke, said the Queen "is very warm, very easy to talk to. Helluva job she's got. I wouldn't want it." She stopped to chat with Linda Patterson, whose arm was in a cast after breaking her thumb. "I think I'm going to cry, I'm so excited!" Patterson said...