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...fellow Trudy Lieberman, a writer of health policy for Consumer Reports and a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, will look at how the media contributes to waste and harm in health care. She will focus on how the media covered medical interventions like bone marrow transplants for breast cancer patients, and whether these interventions were effective...
Grant became a double event-winner as he beat out Brown competitors to touch first in the 200 breast, while Im, who normally only swims backstroke events, won the 500 freestyle in 4:32.32. Walker finished less than six-tenths behind to take second place...
...wives dutifully hung back, the men crowded along a low wooden fence. Beyond it was an artificial grove of ferns and waterfalls. Five women wearing wet sarongs appeared and began to pour water slowly over themselves. Occasionally a woman would let a sarong slip to show a glistening brown breast. The Chinese men craned forward; two guards blew whistles and shooed them back. The women splashed about in desultory fashion for another five minutes and then, upon some hidden cue, picked up their buckets and tossed water over the leching spectators. The men scampered back to their wives. There...
Help provided by co-workers isn't always formalized. In 1993 Joan Frier, now a public relations manager for SHARE, a national breast- and ovarian-cancer advocacy group based in New York City, started a new job as a legal text editor while recovering from breast cancer. Her bosses sometimes had unrealistic expectations, and it was her co-workers who gave her day-to-day encouragement. "They would take on some tasks for me, cover for my mistakes and help me with new things," she recalls. "I couldn't have done it without these people...
Other cancers are also being targeted. In July doctors at the University of North Carolina began trials of a breast-cancer vaccine based on bioengineered dendritic cells--rare white blood cells that act as scouts for the immune system. These lock onto a protein called HER-2/neu found in the tumors of a third of all breast cancers. At UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, researchers are working on a vaccine to treat brain cancer. Still other scientists are experimenting with vaccines for kidney, colon, pancreatic and ovarian cancer...