Years of regular aspirin use may lengthen a woman's life: Research published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that low to moderate daily doses over the long term reduce the risk of death from all causes by 25 percent. For colorectal cancer, the risk plunged by as much as half. More specifically, women without a history of cardiovascular disease who took aspirin regularly were 38 percent less likely to die from heart problems than women who didn't take aspirin, and women with no history of cancer saw their risk of death from cancer fall by 12 percent. The effects were most pronounced in older women and those with the most cardiovascular risk factors.
Child care is a constant source of concern for parents of young children. They worry not only about finding decent care, but about whether putting children in child care early in life harms their social and academic development later on. Studies that have tried to answer that question haven't been very helpful, because they have not taken account of quality of care, the amount of time children were in child care, and the type of care. With 10 million children under age 5 in child care for 40 or more hours a week, it's no small matter.
Former Top Justice Official to Contradict Gonzales Statements (March 26)
U.S. Attorney Flap Is a Primer on How Not to Manage a Crisis (March 23)
Cheney's Hand Seen in Executive Privilege Fight (March 23)
A History of Attorneys General in Hot Water (March 23)
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News Desk Blog: Dispatch From the Document Pile (March 20)
Gloria Borger: Incompetence Reigns in Gonzales Flap (March 20)
News Desk Blog Exclusive: E-mail Shows Internal Rift At Justice Over Firings (March 19)
News Desk Blog: Paralysis Sets In as DOJ Faces Crisis (March 19)
Note to Gonzales on CIA Prosecution Preceded Firing of U.S. Attorney (March 19)
It's Make-or-Break Time for Gonzales (March 19)
GOP in Sync on Budget and Gonzales (March 19)
Gonzales: The Texan Who Can't Shoot Straight (March 16)
Ashcroft Aide Sought to ID Weak U.S. Attorneys (March 16)
Bush Aides Worry About Bush's Loyalty to Gonzales (March 16)
Bonnie Erbe: Gonzales, the Walking Cadaver (March 16)
Capitol Hill Turns Up Heat on Gonzales (March 15)
John W. Mashek: Gonzales Is on Borrowed Time (March 15)
Behind the Scenes of the U.S. Attorney Firings (March 13)
Furor Over Firings Rages Despite Gonzales Admitting Mistakes (March 13)
GOP Senators Not Rushing to Back Gonzales (March 12)
John W. Mashek: Gonzales Rivals Rove as Chief Manipulator (March 9)
News Desk Blog: U.S. Attorney Hubbub May Have '08 Implications (March 8)
Investigation Widens Into Dismissals of U.S. Attorneys (March 7)
Congress Probes Departures of U.S. Attorneys (Feb. 6)
AP - A Senate panel wants to know if the Patriot Act needs to be revised to keep the FBI from illegally or improperly gathering telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while pursuing terrorists.
AP - Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to meet every two weeks to discuss day-to-day issues, in a quickening diplomatic pace that eventually could spur talks on a final peace settlement, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Tuesday.
AP - Iran said Tuesday the 15 British sailors and marines it detained last week are healthy, have been treated in a humane manner and that the only female sailor among them had been given privacy.
The family of Cpl. Pat Tillman said the Army investigation into the former NFL player's death by friendly fire in Afghanistan suggests a conspiracy and vowed to pursue a congressional investigation into how the death was handled. Military officials had said earlier that nine officers, including four generals, will face "corrective action" for making critical mistakes in the aftermath of Tillman's death.