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Study:
Aspirin Helps Women Prevent Strokes
Middle-age women can cut their risk of strokes but
not heart attacks by regularly taking low doses of aspirin, and the
pills help prevent both problems in women 65 and older, a major
study found.
The results are opposite what is known about aspirin
in men, where its benefit for stroke is limited and its ability to
prevent heart problems is legendary. Since women proportionately
suffer more strokes and men more heart attacks, this is generally
good news, specialists said.
Learn more specifics on this new finding and what it
may mean for women. Read CNN's
complete coverage.
Congress
Keeps Heat on Steroids
 With
Congress and Major League Baseball embroiled in a fight over
steroids, the chairman of a House panel said Thursday that all major
U.S. sports leagues should work toward a single testing plan.
"Our
elite athletic organizations, both professional and amateur, should
establish uniform, world-class, drug-testing standards that are as
consistent and robust as our criminal laws in this area," said
Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla. "Nothing less should be
tolerated."
Get
updated information on the congressional agenda, latest subpoenas
and more at the CBS
News site.
Report
Links Second-Hand Smoke, Cancer
Scientists
at an influential San Francisco state agency have completed a draft
report linking second-hand smoke to breast cancer, a finding that
could lead air quality regulators to strengthen the state's indoor
smoking laws. It's
the first major report to draw that connection, and one of many
findings about the health effects of so-called environmental tobacco
smoke, or ETS. Learn
more at the ABC
News website about the specifics of this study.
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'South
Beach Diet' Takes Aim at Schools
Kelly Ferrer no longer gets the waffles, pancakes and sugar cereals
that she loved eating for breakfast last year in her school cafeteria.
This year, instead, she is served whole-wheat bread, lowfat cheese and
fruit.
"I want to go back to the old menu," said the
fourth-grader at Mill Creek Elementary School. "We had better
food last year."
Kelly's is one of six schools in this Orlando suburb taking part in
a study by a research center founded by Dr. Arthur Agatston, the
author of "The South Beach Diet."
Learn more about the changes made to the schools menus and what
researchers hope to discover at the ABC
News website.
US
Life Expectancy Hits High Mark  Americans
are living longer than ever largely because of declining death rates
from heart disease, cancer and stroke, the federal government said
Monday.
Average
life expectancy in the United States rose to a record 77.6 years in
2003 from 77.3 years in 2002, according to the latest data from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Learn
more about this latest trend and the reasons for the life expectancy
increase at the CNN
website.
Rocket
Fuel Chemical Found in Mother's Milk
 A
toxic chemical used in rocket fuel was found in virtually every sample
taken in a new study of nursing mothers' milk, but researchers said it
is too early to know whether the perchlorate levels are dangerous.
Perchlorate
has been linked to thyroid ailments, and is considered particularly
dangerous to children. It has been found in drinking water supplies in
35 states and also in vegetables. While the chemical occurs naturally,
the National Academy of Sciences has said most of the contamination is
from its use in rocket fuels, fireworks and explosives. Learn
more about this problem and the states most effected at the MSNBC
news site.
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