The challenge to HRT: Healthy women reaching the menopausemay choose to start taking hormones in a bid to safeguard their hearts andbones. But do we know enough about the role of hormones to make this auniversal prescription?
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This week's magazine
23 October 1993
Issue 1896
On the cover
Editor's picks
A sea turns to dust: Glasnost brought the plight of theshrinking Aral Sea to the world’s attention, but with the break-up of theSoviet Union rescue plans have fallen apart
Features
Shock of the past for modern medicine: A radical approach to medicine seeks to explain diseases and their symptoms as a legacy of our evolution. Can Darwinism lead to better treatments?
Features
Humans
Recasting the Bronze Age
Features
Table of contents
News
Tools of the trade for gene engineers
News
Exotic pulsar blazes trail to glory
News
Canal threat to Brazilian wetland
News
Science Museum axes jobs to make space
News
Wrong kind of rain fools warning system
News
Whooping cough vaccine ‘should be replaced’
News
Does patent hold promise of eternal slimness?
News
Wave energy project hangs in the balance
News
Halfway home for rare horses
News
Bats to roost in nuclear bunkers
News
Amateurs pay to be scientists
News
US counts cost of alien invaders
News
HIV scandal rocks German ministry
News
Will Maastricht hold up research?
News
‘Molecule memory’ man to lose his laboratory
News
Marriage problems
News
Ethically challenged
News
Timber pledge
News
Test of good faith
News
Smell repels
News
Move over Mick Jagger
News
Manic search
News
Can computers come in from the cold?: Four years after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, Western countries are battling to dismantle high-technology trade barriers to former communist countries
News
Science: Dinosaurs’ had the bones of birds
News
Science: Now you see it . . . now you don’t
News
Science: How to rob flies of their youth
News
Science: Life returns to island after rat massacre
News
Science: Is there a radio link to gamma-ray bursters?
News
Science: Fossils worm out sea’s salty secrets
News
Technology
Technology: How PC’s predict where crime will strike
News
Technology
Technology: Virtually open: a new British Library
News
Technology
Technology: Z-Laser shines for optical fibres
News
Technology
Technology: ‘Twin’ vaccine strikes at livestock killers
News
Technology
Technology: Biosensor probes brain for early signs of disease
News
Technology
Technology: Sound waves in sync for better stereo
News
Opinion
Features
The challenge to HRT: Healthy women reaching the menopausemay choose to start taking hormones in a bid to safeguard their hearts andbones. But do we know enough about the role of hormones to make this auniversal prescription?
Features
A sea turns to dust: Glasnost brought the plight of theshrinking Aral Sea to the world’s attention, but with the break-up of theSoviet Union rescue plans have fallen apart
Features
Shock of the past for modern medicine: A radical approach to medicine seeks to explain diseases and their symptoms as a legacy of our evolution. Can Darwinism lead to better treatments?
Features
Humans
Recasting the Bronze Age
Features
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Review: Whose genes are they anyway?
Books & Arts
Review: Underground walk on the wild side
Books & Arts
Review: The enlightenment set in stone
Books & Arts
Review: Local heroes of Monterey’s marine world
Books & Arts
Review: Learn to love our freshwater friends
Books & Arts
Review: Bang up to date
Books & Arts
Review: Eavesdropping on Hitler’s nuclear elite
Books & Arts
