Sunday, August 18, 2002

86 percent of the 2,866,000 people who die each year of diarrhea are children. More about this at Sneaking Suspicions. 10:58:26 PM      comment [] Here's some good advice from Brad DeLong. 10:39:47 PM      comment [] We never learn. Despite the fact that it fuels the growth of prostate cancer and increases the rate of red blood cell production, which can increase the risk of clots that can cause heart attacks and strokes, more and more men are taking testosterone replacement. And there have been no clinical trials to prove efficacy and safety. Didn't we just go through this with womens' hormone replacement therapy? The NYT quotes Dr. John B. McKinlay of the New England Research Institutes: We are about to repeat that debacle. We have the slimmest evidence on testosterone replacement. Five men here, 10 men there. Six rats and a partridge in a pear tree. The physiology is not there but the industry, the industry is there." 10:37:09 PM      comment []

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