"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Uneven Handed: The latest cause of breast cancer is being left handed:
A Dutch team found left-handed women were more than twice as likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer as non-left handed women.
...The researchers, from the University Medical Center Utrecht, examined over 12,000 middle aged women born between 1932 and 1941.
That pretty much sums up the paper which is as spare of useful information as that excerpt. The authors hide their data and only give the results in terms of relative risk - which means that the real differences between the right handed and left handed could be - and probably are - miniscule. posted by Sydney on
10/16/2005 09:08:00 PM
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