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Moms Prepare to March

Thousands of mothers and others will descend on Washington, D.C., Mother's Day (May 14) to demand passage of common-sense gun laws in the United States.

Labeled the "Million Mom March," the event was conceived by Donna Dees-Thomases, a New Jersey mother who saw reports of the North Valley Jewish Community Center shooting last August in which a man with a high-powered gun fired off 20-to-30 rounds, wounding three young children, a teen-ager and an adult.

• Sensible "cooling off" periods and background checks
• License handgun owners and register all handguns
• Safety locks for all handguns
• Limit purchases to one-handgun-per-month
• No-nonsense enforcement of gun laws

For more information on the march, visit the Million Mom March Web site.

Heart Patients Launch National Organization

Several women with heart disease recently launch the new national organization, National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, and its Web site, www.womenheart.org.

The coalition was founded by a group of women heart attack survivors who joined together to improve the quality of life for all women who are living with heart disease.

The group plans to offer information, interaction through online newsletters and support groups and advocacy.

"Since heart disease kills half of all American women, this organization is long overdue," said WomenHeart executive director Nancy Loving, who had a heart attack at age 48. "For too long women with heart disease have been undertreated, invisible and isolated. WomenHeart will give us a seat at the policy table and push women's heart disease to the top of America's healthcare agenda."

For more information about WomenHeart, visit the organization's Web site.

Horomone Replacement Study Causes Stir

A preliminary review of a national women's health study have found a small increase in the number of cardiac events among women taking estrogen replacement therapy (ERT), or hormone replacement therapy (HRT), compared with those taking placebo.

The National Institutes of Health indicated that early results from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) were not significant enough to abandon the study.

The study has found that the number of women experiencing cardiac events (heart attack, stroke, or blood clots) during the first two years was fewer than 1 percent of all participants, lower than what would be expected among women of this age in the general population.

These small differences in cardiac events between women on hormones and those on placebo were only apparent after most women had already been in the study for two years. According to the NIH, the increase did not meet statistical criteria for stopping the trial and, therefore may have occurred by chance.

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