Just wanted to let you know that Version 1.0.6 is live. This new versions fixes the search widget in the default sidebar. Thanks to Louis for pointing that out to me.

Click HERE to download it.

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TH

WordPress 2.9 has been released and I would highly recommend updating your site to this version. I have tested the theme and didn’t see any errors, but if you notice any, please contact me.

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Tim

“On Monday, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, an influential group that crafts guidelines for doctors, insurance companies and policymakers, released new recommendations for women getting mammograms. Instead of the annual mammogram beginning at age 40, the USPSTF now says that women who aren’t at risk because they lack a family history of the disease should get them once every two years starting at age 50.”

I think this is ridiculous as does the author, Mary Ellen Egan. They say that getting mammograms before 50 increases unnecessary treatments like simple biopsies that give women anxiety. I also think they missed the mark when they suggest getting a mammogram every two years. This recommendation by the USPSTF is a joke. What do you think?

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They examined 211 breast tumors that had traveled to the lymph nodes in the armpit. This is the location breast cancer usually spreads to first, BBC News reported. The researchers were surprised to find that the breast cancer had changed in so many patients and in so many ways.”

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“Cancer Cure? UW Research Working on Breast Cancer Vaccine

Hundreds of thousands of women live in fear that someday, breast cancer will come back. Now, some doctors are developing a vaccine for breast cancer which would make those fears a thing of the past.”

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Thanks to some debugging by a user, I have now fixed an issue in Internet Explorer 8 that was making some of the text appear unusually large on the archives pages. This should be fixed now. If you don’t want to go get another copy, go into your archive.php file and find and delete the code that looks like this -

<h1 id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>

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Tim

“Researchers from the University of Rochester revealed this week that many women with breast cancer have also tested low for levels of vitamin D. Of the 166 women studied, 70 percent were vitamin D-deficient when blood test results came back. Women who were in the late stages of the disease had the lowest levels of all.”

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