Hallie Levine
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MORE GALS DYING TO SMOKE: STUDY
March 28, 2001 | 5:00amAmerican women face a smoking epidemic, the latest U.S. surgeon general's report says. Women account for 39 percent of smoking-related deaths - more than double the rate in 1965. Worse,...
IF YOU'VE HAD YOUR FILL OF THE PILL . . . - A HOST OF BIRTH CONTROL ALTERNATIVES FOR WOMEN ARE ON THE SHELVES AND ON WAY
March 27, 2001 | 5:00amOVER the next year, New York women will face a whole new array of contraceptive choices. Studies show that these birth control options are more effective than what's currently on...
BREAST-TEST CENTER CITED FOR VIOLATIONS - FDA WARNS 12 IN THE N.Y. AREA
March 27, 2001 | 5:00amA dozen mammography centers in the metropolitan area received warning letters from the Food and Drug Administration earlier this year for various violations. Four of the New York facilities -...
SINISTER ILLNESS STRIKES MORE PREGNANT WOMEN
March 22, 2001 | 5:00amA potentially life-threatening condition that affects pregnant women and their babies is on the rise - and doctors admit to being baffled by it. Preeclampsia - a condition characterized by...
STUDY FINDS AN ESTROGEN-CANCER LINK
March 21, 2001 | 5:00amWomen who use post-menopausal synthetic estrogen increase their risk of dying from ovarian cancer, a new study says - but New York doctors say the study is flawed and women...
DOG'S LOVE THEY DELIVER: HOSPITALS' THERAPY POOCHES WAG THEIR WAY INTO SICK KIDS' HEARTS
March 20, 2001 | 5:00amEVERY Thursday, Duncan Hanna patrols the corridors of the Children's Hospital of New York with three of his pals: Moo-Shu, a 7-year-old Shar-Pei; Tommy Lee, a 4-year-old corgi; and Mo,...
'SUBWAY GUY' IS ON A ROLL - SHEDS 245 LBS. & HIS DAY JOB TO STAR IN FOOD CHAIN'S DIET ADS
March 16, 2001 | 5:00amWHEN Jared Fogle walks the streets of midtown Manhattan, people turn and stare. It's not that the 23-year-old is an up-and-coming Hollywood actor or a supermodel. Fogle's claim to fame...
BREAST-CANCER SURPRISE - MANY WOMEN FEEL STRESS IS KEY TRIGGER
March 8, 2001 | 5:00amNew York doctors are deeply divided about a controversial new study that reveals that almost half of all breast-cancer survivors believe their illness was caused by stress. Researchers from the...
CALLING THE 'SHOTS' IN KIDS' HEALTH ; VACCINATION-FEARING PARENTS BATTLE CITY IMMUNIZATION LAWS
March 4, 2001 | 5:00amMaja Leibovitz and Patricia Papdopulous are two mothers at loggerheads with the city because they refuse to have their kids vaccinated against deadly diseases like polio, whooping cough and hepatitis...
DID PREMENSTRUAL 'CURE' INVENT THE DISEASE? - OLD DRUG, NEW MARKET FOR REPACKAGED PROZAC
February 27, 2001 | 5:00amAN irate woman shrieks hysterically at her confused husband. Another sobs plaintively. A third glumly stares at her bloated figure in a dressing-room mirror. "Think it's PMS?" a female voice...
THE BIG APPLE CAN BE A HEART-BREAKER - DOCS OFFER SOME DO'S & DON'TS TO HELP KEEP THE OLD TICKER TICKING
February 21, 2001 | 5:00amEVERYWHERE you look, there's another New Yorker in imminent danger of having a heart attack. There's the red-faced, middle-aged businessman desperately trying to hail a cab on Sixth Avenue, the...
MED MIRACLE OR WA$TE? - FUROR OVER 'ULTRAFAST' NEW DEVICES THAT SCAN ENTIRE BODY
February 9, 2001 | 5:00amLOU HIRSHBERG is a recent convert to a new "miracle" scanning technology that promises to detect health problems before they become life-threatening. Some call the scans, which first became available...
SHOPPING ON MICK'S MONEY - WE JOIN LOVE KID'S MOTHER ON $PREE
February 8, 2001 | 5:00amLUCIANA MORAD took Mick Jagger's money shopping yesterday - 24 hours after she settled her year-long child-support battle with the ramblin' Rolling Stone. The Brazilian bombshell whizzed through Prada stores...
TOO DEADLY TO IGNORE RARE DISEASE CATCHES MANY MEN OFF GUARD
February 4, 2001 | 5:00amDAVID Kingsley was sweating away on his exercise bike when he noticed a lump in his left breast. Although he didn't think very much of it, his wife urged him...
SUPER-DRUG BOTOX ADDS NEW WRINKLE TO TREATMENT
February 1, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S already a well-known weapon against wrinkles. And now, doctors are calling the poison Botox one of the most important drugs of the century. The diluted toxin, which is injected...
WHAT IS IT ABOUT WOMEN THAT MAKES THEM WANNA GO OUT WITH 'BAD BOYS?' 'FIRST WIVES' AUTHOR IS KISSING OFF CADS
January 30, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S a "bad boys'" world. That's the gospel according to Olivia Goldsmith, 46, the sharp-tongued scribe who's made millions writing about how society uses and discards women. "Look at Jennifer...
DOC SAYS GUYS ARE JUST DOLLS
January 24, 2001 | 5:00amIT'S WHAT women have known all along. Despite thousands of years of guys swaggering - from spear-throwing cavemen to Super Bowl zealots - their machismo is just a facade. Men,...
MAMMOGRAM CRISI$ FORCES CLINIC CLOSURE
January 17, 2001 | 5:00amJust days after The Post reported that New York mammography facilities are cash-strapped and slashing services, a prominent Manhattan radiology center says it is closing its doors. East River Imaging...
BREAST PATIENTS AT RI$K : CLINIC WOES DELAY VITAL SCREENINGS
January 14, 2001 | 5:00amMAMMOGRAPHY centers across the city and country are losing money and cutting services - forcing women to wait months for breast-cancer screenings and putting lives at risk, doctors told The...
HOMELESS IN THE HAMPTONS - WEALTHY RESIDENTS RIP WELFARE MOTELS AS 'GHETTOS' FOR POOR
January 8, 2001 | 5:00amSOUTHAMPTON is home to some of the poshest residential enclaves on Long Island. But behind the million-dollar houses, haute-couture boutiques and fur-draped women is a growing homeless population living in...