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Profiles in Medicine
Does oestrogen therapy cause breast cancer?
SOME WOMEN are afraid to take the hormone replacement therapies at menopause because of an ongoing controversy linking the hormone, oestrogen, to the development of breast cancer. However, family doctor, Dr. Venice Bernard-Wright said more than 30...
Bone health
THERE IS a link between exercise and osteoporosis. Researchers indicate that exercise, especially weight-bearing exercise, helps the bones to take up more calcium in early life before bone density peaks in the thirties.
Post traumatic stress disorder
MOST PEOPLE will get over traumatic experiences quickly and without professional help but when an individual develops post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) usually the experience that triggered the disorder is so extreme that the individual would have...
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