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Byline: Janice M. Horowitz Taking charge of your health means more than following expert advice blindly. It includes educating yourself about hidden influences that may affect your care--and ways you [...]

Reports on age-related infertility in women. Discussion of the argument of Sylvia Ann Hewlett's book 'Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children' that many career-focused women can not expect to wait until they are 40 or older to have children; Reference to the debate about how to best balance work and home life; Details of the decline in a woman's chance of getting pregnant as she ages; Mention of the American Infertility Association and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

Focuses on the advancements in detection techniques and treatments for breast cancer. Debate over the value of routine mammograms and the possibility of overtreatment; Information about ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), which involves miniature tumors; Discussion of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and hormone treatment; Genetic aspects, including the identification of a biological marker called the HER2 receptor; Outlook. INSET: What All the Fuss Is About.

Focuses on the anthrax crisis in the United States as of November 5, 2001. The role of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in trying to find the source of the anthrax; Suggestion that the public will lose its faith in the government with each casualty; Number of casualties from anthrax; Discussion of the post offices where the anthrax was found; Why authorities are not sure if the anthrax is from a domestic or foreign terrorist. INSETS: HANDLE WITH CARE;HOW TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS;HOW ANTHRAX IS WEAPONIZED...AND HOW IT DOES ITS DEADLY....

Presents brief news tidbits for the nation for the week of December 3-9, 1995. President Bill Clinton's veto of the Republican balanced-budget plan; Bob Dole's postponement of a vote on a resolution of qualified support for President Clinton's peacekeeping plan in Bosnia; The Senate's vote approving a bill that would outlaw a rare and particularly gruesome type of late-term abortion despite the threat of presidential veto; Other topics.

Reviews the news from around the United States for the week of October 8-14, 1995. Crash of Amtrak's `Sunset Limited' with a message found from the so-called Sons of the Gestapo; Approval of the Republican Party's plan to overhaul Medicare by both the Ways and Means and the Commerce committees of the House; Announcement by Senator Sam Nunn of George that he would step down at the end of 1995; Other national news notes.

Reports that, instead of getting healthy in the health-conscious 1980s, Americans actually got fatter. The finding that those in their 40s are now heavier than people in their 40s were ten years ago; Statistics from a report in the `Journal of the American Medical Association'; Obesity; View of nutritionists that Americans in the 1980's ate too much and exercised too little; The increase in take-out food consumption.

Presents news briefs from around the United States for the week of January 21-27, 1996. Appearance of Hillary Rodham Clinton before a Whitewater federal grand jury; The delivery by President Bill Clinton of his third State of the Union message while facing one of the most partisan Congresses in years; Appearance of O.J. Simpson on Black Entertainment Television; More national news.

Offers world news briefs for January 14-20, 1996. Order given by Russian President Boris Yeltsin for Russian army, police and security forces to attack the village of Pervomaiskoye; 300 Chechen rebels holding more than 100 civilians hostage; Yeltsin's acceptance of the resignation of his chief strategist, Anatoly Chubais; Washington's scolding of Bosnia and Croatia for failing to rid Bosnian soil of foreign fighters; Other briefs.

Offers news briefs for the week of January 14-20, 1996. Continuing impasse over budget talks between President Bill Clinton and Republican congressional leaders; Controversy over Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 1993 firings of White House travel employees; Announcement by Maine Republican Senator William Cohen that he would not seek re-election; Other news.

Discusses international news events for the week of December 10-16, 1995. Release by General Ratko Mladic of two French pilots who were shot down during a bombing raid by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Sentencing of dissident Wei Jingsheng of China; Renewed peace negotiations between Israel and Syria; Other international news.

Presents news from around the world for the week of November 12-18, 1995. The renaming of the main square in Tel Aviv for the slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; Explosion in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh in front of an American-run military-training center; A major concession by Serbs in Croatia to return a slice of oil-rich territory they had seized in 1991; More world events.

Presents news from around the United States for the week of November 12-18, 1995. The key parts of the government shutting down after President Clinton vetoes stopgap spending-and- borrowing legislation enacted by Congress; Shutdown sending home `nonessential' federal workers; Speaker Newt Gingrich's complaint about what he perceived as discourtesy by President Clinton to him on an Air Force One flight; More national news.

Studies cumulative trauma disorder, a syndrome that results from overusing the muscles and tendons of the fingers, hands, arms and shoulders (also known as repetitive stress injuries) which strikes an estimated 185,000 US office and factory workers a year. Typical victims; RSI costs per year; Carpal tunnel syndrome; Computer makers' defense; Employer responsibility; Psychological strain. INSET: Building a better keyboard, by Philip Elmer-Dewitt..

Focuses on ten foods that have been identified for their contributions to good health and how they work to prevent disease. Tomatoes, which contain the anti-oxidant lycopene, and their ability to reduce the risk of prostate cancer and other cancers of the digestive tract; Health benefits of spinach, which contains iron and folate, including prevention of neural-tube defects in babies and macular degeneration; Way that red wine benefits the heart; Others.

Discusses how doctors are questioning whether infertility treatments damage infants' genes, in light of two published studies. Study that appeared in 'New England Journal of Medicine,' which found test-tube babies have a higher risk of major birth defects; Report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concerning the risks of low birth weight; Pros and cons regarding the studies; View that the risks still remain small.

Looks at how Americans will recover from the psychological damage done by terrorist attacks against the United States in September 2001, including airplane hijackings and the destruction of the World Trade Center. The work of grief counselors in New York City in the wake of the destruction; The problems suffered by family members of victims and missing people; Information about post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Presents news from around the world for the week of January 21 to January 27, 1996. The denial of allegations by Colombian President Ernesto Samper Pizano that he accepted drug money during his 1994 campaign; The resignation of Polish Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy; The Palestinian election vote marred by mistrust; Other world news.

Offers business briefs for the week of January 21 to January 27, 1996. Decline of Japan's trade surplus with the United States; The expectation that the decline will continue; The filing of civil charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Orange County and other officials; The former chief of research at Brown & Williamson, accusing his company's former chairman of perjury; Other details.

Highlights business briefs for the week of December 31, 1995 to January 6, 1996. The elimination by AT&T of 40,000 jobs over the next three years; The dismissal of celebrity financial columnist Dan Dorfman by `Money' magazine; 1995 holiday sales as compared to previous December figures.

Presents information occurring in the business world during the week of November 19, 1995. Closing figures for the Dow Jones industrial average; The Labor Department's investigation into some 300 companies for having possibly misused their employees' 401(k) payroll retirement contributions; Extradition of Nick Leeson.

Previews the business news for the week of October 8-14, 1995. Purchase by software mogul Bill Gates' privately held Corbis Corp. of the Bettmann Archive; Other nonexclusive electronic rights bought by Corbis; Admission by the Japanese government that it knew of the $1.1 billion loss incurred by Daiwa Bank for six weeks before disclosure.

Highlights news from around the world for the week of October 8-14, 1995. How the warring parties in Bosnia silenced their guns two days after a cease-fire was due to take effect; Withdrawal of the Israelis from parts of the West Bank; An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Mexico; Russia's worst grain harvest since 1965.

Says that reports the Food and Drug Administration was planning to crack down on vitamin supplements touched a nerve among the 75 million Americans who take vitamins, minerals and other dietary aids every day and threatens to turn Capitol Hill hearings into a war. Uproar stirred by pressure group National Health Alliance; FDA's concerns that health claims be backed up with `significant scientific agreement'; Labeling issue; Compromise.

Cites an article in `Quarterly Review of Biology' by Margie Profet, 35, which proposes that menstruation is a mechanism that protects fertility by preventing sperm-borne bacteria from infecting the womb. Assertion that Profet's argument is the only serious contender for a plausible evolutionary explanation of menstruation; Criticism that Profet got her physiological facts wrong. INSET: `School isn't my kind of...,' by Hannah Bloch and Elaine....

Cites the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American College of Sports Medicine and the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, who banded together to say a quarter of the adult population is sedentary and another third is barely active. Numbers of people taking up vigorous activity seems to have crested in the mid-'80s; Effects of immigrants and poverty; Widening health gap between affluent and poor; Activity recommended.

Recounts testimony before two Food and Drug Administration advisory panels over whether to require special labels on milk from cows given a synthetic hormone, bovine somatotropin, to increase production. Anti-biotech consumer advocates led by Jeremy Rifkin versus the biotech industry and government scientists; Nation's dairy farmers running a surplus already; No formal recommendation on labeling as yet; Concerns about BGH; Staking reputation on purity.

Reports the deaths of several famous people for July 21, 2003. Conjoined twins, Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who underwent the risk of surgery to separate their brains; Economic historian Charles Kindleberger; Author Winston Graham; Poet Josephine Jacobsen; Television actor Buddy Ebsen; British chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi war-crime trials, Hartley Shawcross.

Presents observations about the cookbook 'Vegetables from the Sea' by Jill Gusman. How Gusman offers recipes that use various types of edible seaweeds and Japanese cuisine.

Discusses how heart patients that use defibrillators can check their health data by using a device made by Medtronic. How defibrillators can be used to shock a heart back into a regular rhythm.

Mentions several celebrities. The marriage of actor-director Edward Burns to model Christy Turlington; Election of the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church, V. Gene Robinson; Deaths of music producer Mickie Most from cancer, journalist Wallace Terry from Wegener's granulomatosis, legal strategist Burke Marshall, Russian pianist and scientist Natalya Reshetov-Skaya, and professional wrestler Freddie Blassie.

Reports on the results of a study conducted with regard to video games and visual skills. Finding that visual skills improve through playing video games; Comments from Daphne Bavelier, a brain and cognitive-science professor at the University of Rochester, that visual skills are not the only skills required for academic achievement.

Reports on clothing specially designed to protect skin from harmful ultraviolet rays. How sunscreen is sometimes not enough; Marketing of sunprotective clothing by Solar Eclipse, Sun Precautions, and Coolibar; Precautions to take with regard to sunprotective clothing.

Recounts the popularity of folk music in the United States during the early part of the 1960s. Excerpt of a story that appeared in 'Time' magazine in 1962 which discussed the popularity of folk musicians in urban areas of the United States; Reference to the motion picture 'A Mighty Wind,' which satirizes the folk music movement.

Reports the deaths and conditions of celebrities. Clara Harris who was convicted of murdering her husband; John Kerry who is recovering from surgery; First cloned sheep who was euthanized; Ronald Ziegler, Johnny Longden, Clark MacGregor, Joe Connelly, Kemmons Wilson, Walt Rostow who all passed away.

Reports on the growing popularity of ice wine among Americans. The unusual way in which the grapes are harvested and processed for ice wine; Comment from Andrea Immer, author of 'Great Tastes Made Simple' The origin of ice wines; How ice wines taste; Canada's role as a producer of ice wines from Riesling, Vidal and Seyvak grapes.