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Correction Appended Everything you thought you knew about migraine headaches — except that they are among the worst nonfatal afflictions of humankind — may be wrong. At least that’s what headache researchers now maintain. From long-maligned dietary triggers to the underlying cause of the headaches themselves, longstanding beliefs have been brought into question by recent studies. As if that were not enough dogma to overturn, there is growing evidence that almost all so-called sinus headaches are really migraines. No wonder then that the plethora of sinus remedies on the market and the endless prescriptions for antibiotics have yielded so little...

Study Discounts Protection Against Cancer in Women Neither low-dose aspirin nor Vitamin E supplements prevent cancer in women, and Vitamin E also does little or nothing to prevent heart disease in them, according to results of a large and authoritative study released yesterday. The findings from the nearly 40,000-person Women's Health Study add to the growing evidence that Vitamin E pills have no health benefit, but they run counter to the rising tide in favor of wider use of aspirin to prevent disease. The study hinted that the two compounds may offer some protection against disease in some women --...