Should you go Cold Turkey when cutting off the HRT?

Since the publication of the Women's Health Initiative results (JW Womens Health May 2 2006), hormone therapy (HT) has been recommended only for women who have substantial symptoms at menopause — and then only for as long as necessary to alleviate symptoms. But is HT best discontinued abruptly or by tapering?

To address this question....Women were randomized to stop HT abruptly or to take their usual doses every other day for 4 weeks and then stop.

Result: no difference, in terms of hot flash recurrence.

Last night I watched The Cove, which won best documentary at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. This is one amazing!!!! film and the the makers of this film are heroes. The film is on most pay/per/view now, but won't be for long. I'd say it is a family film for kids over the age of 10. Yes, you will have to watch one of the most heartbreaking scenes of all time, but it is not so much that you can't take it, but enough to know that in your soul dwells something more than just flesh and blood.

Guest post by
Guerrilla Girl

"A black dwarf has mass and it can still generate a gravitational pull but no longer produces any light or heat." - http://www.sky-watch.com/articles/stars_die.html

After decades of shining spectacularly, such would appear to be the eventual fate of golf's brightest supernova, Tiger Woods, whose hydrogen seems to be running out fast.

The public's voice has been loud, clear and consistent. They say, fix the economy first. More than half (52%) name jobs or the economy as their top issue in a recent New York Times poll compared to 13% that name health care.~ Mark Penn
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/08/the_health_care_jam...

Let's start with the Great News from the Sooner state! From Center for Reproductive Rights:

From SFGate:

Funny thing about the academy. It likes honoring movies with liberal political and social messages, but only at a point when those ideas have become so mainstream that no one could disagree.

Sean Penn likes to burn barbie dolls on their sexual parts. He uses cigarettes to do this.
Penn:

takes out his frustrations with Coulter, who is a best-selling author, lawyer and television pundit, on the Barbie-like doll.”

The Post Chronicle reported:

“‘We violate her,’ the ornery actor tells The New Yorker about his mini-Coulter. ‘There are cigarette burns in some funny places. She's a pure snake-oil salesman. She doesn't believe a word she says.’"

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/node/4648#ixzz0hKwHBgmB

Transcript of staff assistant Sidney @ Chuck Schumer's NY Office 212-486-4430
Constituent: After Mr. Schumer called women the b word does he have any intention of apologizing to all women for this? What about strongly denouncing the word as misogyny?

Sindney: He has not made a comment on that . He has apologized to the stewardess
That is ALL he has to say.

Constituent: If he had called a black stewardess the n word would that merit an apology to all blacks?

Sidney: Why would he say that? the n word.

Constituent: Why did he say to the b word?