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Hormone Hysteria?: hormone replacement therapy may not be so bad

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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is no more considered as the best way to treat menopause, as it increased the risk for dangerous side effect such as breast cancer. It is noted that unless more research is completed HRT deserves careful consideration, as the risk of mortality from breast cancer related to HRT could not be determined. .

Author: Watkins, Dennis
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2003
Care and treatment, Risk factors, Breast cancer, Hormone therapy, Menopause, Hormone replacement therapy

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Getting the picture

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The way in which the brain works is presented that gives a comprehensive picture of the visible world. Further, it is explained that instead working of a single part the different parts of brain work together in parallel to process information about various aspects of each figure.

Author: Herzog, Michael H., Ernst, Udo, Eurich, Christian W.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
Nervous system, Brain research, Visual perception, Vision research

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Reading the blueprints of creation

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Cosmologists have mapped the measurements of large-scale distribution of galaxies through cartographic projects. They have created three-dimensional maps that led to the discovery of large structures, larger than single clusters and many tens of millions of light-years across.

Author: Strauss, Michael A.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
Astronomical research, Cartography, Cosmologists

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