just another test - i'm nothing if not stubborn! please ignore.=09 hi all, the news hound is back, although a bit late. and somewhere along the way,= she lost the=20 caps key again. i just struggled through an almost 'lost' weekend due to the dreaded fema= le/hormone/pd=20 'freeze-ups'. [i.e. when sinemet mysteriously transforms itself into baby= aspirin] and then the recent messages about female hormones have started me diggin= g through the=20 paterson/parkinsn archives for related posts. i've got some going back to dec. 94. i thought i'd post a 'summary thread' of them, since we have so many new = members. maybe=20 someone out there will make a connection that will lead to ...? whaddya'll think? about the 'summary thread', i mean? if it's not too l= ong? janet ps i thought these two news reports on the same subject were revealing in th= eir=20 differences. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Post-menopausal estrogen is said to counter Alzheimer's ---------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright =A9 1996 Nando.net Copyright =A9 1996 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK (Aug 16, 1996 2:17 p.m. EDT) -- Taking estrogen after menopause = may reduce a=20 woman's risk of developing Alzheimer's or delay onset of the disease, sci= entists said=20 Thursday. In a study of 1,124 elderly women being published Saturday in The Lancet,= a British=20 medical journal, and announced at a news conference at Columbia-Presbyter= ian Medical=20 Center in Manhattan, researchers found that only 5.8 percent of women who= had taken=20 estrogen developed Alzheimer's, compared with 16.3 percent of women who h= ad not used the=20 hormone. With each passing year of the five-year study, only 2.7 percent of the wo= men who had=20 used estrogen developed Alzheimer's as against 8.4 percent of those who h= ad not used it.=20 Moreover, the longer the women took estrogen, the lower their risk. Black, White and Hispanic women benefited equally from estrogen, as did w= omen with=20 varying educational and socioeconomic levels. [log in to unmask] =20