Nursing shown to cut breast cancer risk in younger mothers
A large study found that starting breastfeeding in adolescence and continuing at least six months reduces premenopausal breast cancer risk, with a 46 percent drop for those beginning before 20 and nursing six months or more. The research, led by Dr. Polly Newcomb, analyzed 5878 patients and 8216 nonpatients across several New England states.
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Boston
Polly Newcomb
University of Wisconsin
New England Journal of Medicine
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
Justice Department backs effort to seize Packwood diaries
The Justice Department joined the Senate Ethics Committee in seeking a court order to enforce a subpoena for Sen. Bob Packwood's personal diaries. A federal judge will decide on the committee's request, with the case tied to ethics and sexual harassment allegations and a parallel grand jury probe.
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Washington
Justice Department
Senate Ethics Committee
Bob Packwood
Ore
U.S. District Court
U.S
Thomas Jackson
Senate
Packwood
Ethics Committee
Oregonian
Portland
Department
The
Justice Depart
Michael Davidson
Expert: Fixed Hubble can prove black holes
Arlington experts say the repaired Hubble Space Telescope will prove black holes by measuring star velocities near galactic centers. Astronomers at the American Astronomical Society meeting note the December mission corrected blurred vision and will enable an unprecedented search for black holes.
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Arlington
American Astronomical Society
Hubble Space Telescope
Gary Bower
Space Telescope Institute
Bower
Hubble
Navy records reveal 1945 human radiation test in antimony study
The earliest known U S military involvement shows researchers injected two hospital patients with a radioactive compound in 1945 to study excretion rates. The Navy says the test aimed to measure how blood and organs eliminate antimony, a toxic element, and notes volunteers may not have been informed of the injections.
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Washington
U.S
Navy
Energy Department
Defense Department
Woman blocked from attending Citadel classes
Shannon Faulkner was allowed to register but a stay from Chief Justice Rehnquist prevented her from attending Citadel day classes. The vote comes amid federal lawsuits challenging admissions policies at The Citadel and nearby Virginia Military Institute, both all male state military colleges. Faulkner described feeling overwhelmed by the attention as cadets hoped for a last-minute reprieve.
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Charleston
S.C
Citadel
Shannon Faulkner
Military College
William Rehnquist
Virginia Military Institute
Faulkner
Bond Hall
Treatment found to aid spinal nerves in rats
Scientists report a Zurich and Munich study where severed rat spinal nerves sprout new fibers after neurotrophin-3 application and antibody use to block growth inhibitors. The result shows improved function in treated rats, as part of Nature reports on spinal cord injury research.
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New York
Nature
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Max Planck Institute For Psychiatry
Munich
Germany
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