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...BREAST VS. BOTTLE If knowing that it wards off infection and allergies still hasn't persuaded mothers to breast-feed their newborns, maybe this will. A study of 15,000 children ages 9 through 14 shows that those who were breast-fed are 20% less likely to be overweight than those who were formula-fed. That's welcome news indeed, since overweight youngsters tend to grow up into overweight adults...
...That proved far too strong a claim, but monoclonal antibodies have finally begun to live up to more modest expectations. Rituximab was the first, but just a year later, the same approach led to trastuzumab, a drug that keeps growth factors from feeding certain kinds of breast-cancer cells. Such targeted treatments are effective only when the appropriate target exists. Trastuzumab latches onto a receptor known as HER2, which is abnormally abundant in only about 30% of breast-cancer tumors. A biopsy can tell doctors whether a patient is likely to respond to trastuzumab, but they'd hoped to find...
...proteins called proteasomes, which evidently play a role in giving cancer cells unnaturally long lives. The company is in Phase II trials with LDP341, a proteasome-inhibiting substance that is showing promise against multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Phase I studies on the top five solid tumors (breast, pancreatic, prostate, lung and colon) are under way, and at this point the inhibitor seems to be working?at least in mice...
...effect on noninherited colon cancers. And because the receptor for COX-2 is overexpressed on a range of human cancer types, the hope is that COX-2 inhibitors may be useful in preventing a wider range of cancers, including head and neck, bladder, non-small cell lung and breast cancers...
...other journalist ever given the Cup was Rick Reilly of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, who took it to a kids' hockey game, an old-age home and a hospital filled with sick children. The only way I was going to a hospital was if Pam Anderson was there recuperating from more breast enlargement surgery...