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...records to determine the best treatment. With such a system, public-health officials could keep better track of epidemics, for example, or the emergence of a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis. Researchers could scan the population to identify important risk factors that increase a woman's chances of developing breast cancer. AT&T is helping create such a network of linked records for the National Health Service of Britain. Doctors there, however, have strongly opposed the system at every turn. "We don't believe it's prudent to put personal health information on millions of people in the same place...
DIANA NAPPER, 38; WEXFORD, PA.; housewife and mother Her best friend, Carol Jo Weiss Friedman, had a vision that Napper would create something to make people more aware of breast cancer. So Napper designed the crystal-and-pearl Glimmer of Hope pin in memory of Friedman, who died of the disease in 1990. Almost 2,000 pins have been sold, raising nearly $24,000 for research. The proceeds will go to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Napper says the pin represents a bond among women: "Even those of us who don't have breast cancer are afraid...
Owing mostly to mammography, the number of women diagnosed with tiny, noninvasive tumors in the breast's milk duct has quadrupled since 1983. As many of these tumors never spread dangerously beyond the duct, researchers are concerned that women who opt for a MASTECTOMY may be undergoing unnecessarily radical surgery...
...most recent research, Varmus studied mammary tumors in mice in the hopes of learning more about the biochemical properties of HIV and breast cancer...
...maybe it sounded better on paper. Taco Bell pulled out of future Carvey shows the day after the premiere, though the company wouldn't say whether it objected to the ribald skits (which included a prosthetically enhanced President Clinton breast-feeding animals) or the darts aimed at the ad business. ABC quickly promised to tame the show, and Pepsico decided to limit sponsorship to its less familial, more attitude-seeking brands, and thus was born last week's somewhat safer episode, The Mug Root Beer Dana Carvey Show...