Word: cancer
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...remainder, the consequences can be fatal. The damage produced by hypertension may well be the nation's leading cause of death. Heart attacks and strokes kill more Americans than the other leading causes of death combined: cancer and accidents. High blood pressure alone is listed as the primary cause of only 60,000 deaths a year. But hypertension, which rarely appears on death certificates, is the underlying cause of hundreds of thousands of other deaths. Heart disease will claim an estimated 600,000 Americans in 1975, and hypertension is the major contributor to heart disease. Strokes will...
...irony is that many of the deaths that can be traced to high blood pressure are, in fact, avoidable. Doctors may not be able to cure cancer or the common cold, but modern medicine can now treat virtually every case of hypertension, from the mildest to the most severe, effectively and relatively inexpensively...
...successfully used to control high blood pressure. Other potentially valuable drugs, though widely used in Britain, have not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in this country. Reserpine remains an effective antihypertensive despite reports linking it with a slightly increased incidence of breast cancer in some women (TIME...
...more serious is the allegation of tampering with the experiment. If Rosenfeld is indeed guilty--and this would have to be proved by more than mere circumstantial evidence--then he has inhibited the progress of cancer research by wasting the valuable time and grant money of the two scientists involved. Susie Goldman...
...Comedian Jack Benny the pauses were always more eloquent than the gags. When he died last week of cancer, Benny had become the grand master of comic timing; like Playwrights Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett, he had built a career around silence...