Estrogen Therapy Improves Health During Menopause
Estrogen replacement helps save lives by reducing osteoporosis and fractures, lowers heart disease risk after 50, and improves skin thickness urinary health and mood. A 1991 study linked estrogen use to half the risk of heart disease versus nonusers. since 1989, 245 articles exist on menopausal estrogen.
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Estrogen therapy may ease menopause symptoms and bone loss
A review notes estrogen helps irregular periods, hot flashes, mood, vaginal and bladder tissues, and osteoporosis prevention. Benefits exceed risks for many, with breast cancer risk modest and mitigated by added progestin, while untreated menopause brings bleeding, infections, sleep issues, and bone fractures.
Kites Urged as Weather Research Tool
Atmospheric scientist Ben Balsley of the University of Colorado Boulder advocates using tethered kites to study climate patterns. Kites can stay fixed in the air to collect data on temperature water vapor radiation and ozone, offering detail satellites and planes cannot provide.
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University of Colorado, Boulder
Medical Adviser contact and service offer from Palo Alto
The Medical Adviser from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation invites questions and offers personalized literature searches for a fee. It notes access to over 3,500 medical journals and provides a toll free number 1 800 999 1999 for information and inquiries.
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Palo Alto Medical Foundation
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Notable scientists accused of data manipulation across history
In OMNI's June issue Linda Marsa surveys scientific fraud and lists ten famed figures from Galileo to Mendel and Newton, plus modern cases like John Darsee. She details pressures to misreport results, doctored calculations, and unreproducible experiments that tainted key theories and discoveries.
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Lefties and the mysteries of left handedness debated
The article surveys studies suggesting left handed people face higher rates of reading problems immune issues and certain behaviors. It discusses mortality bias case controlled trauma research and debates over genetics brain wiring and birth factors. It notes cultural language links and profiles Bob Charles as a notable but right handed lefty.
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Biochemist Promotes Hangover Cure in Omni
British biochemist David H. Blass claims a nightly mix of vitamin B niacinamide and analgesics taken with orange juice reduces hangover effects. The theory appears in the July Omni Magazine.
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Omni Magazine
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