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...even those alarming numbers require some perspective. The figures, says PCAST member Dr. Harold Varmus, president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and former director of the National Institutes of Health, were generated using data from previous flu pandemics--from 1918, 1957 and 1968--along with the latest data from last spring's outbreaks of H1N1 around the world. Those stats, say officials at the Centers for Disease Control, were then run through models used in the government's 2005 pandemic preparedness efforts that began in the wake of bird flu cases of H5N1 that arose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Unproven H1N1 Flu Vaccine | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

After a seizure in May 2008, he was diagnosed with a malignant glioma, a type of brain tumor that can carry a bleak prognosis. He underwent cancer treatment over the course of the year...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass. Senator Ted Kennedy Dies at 77 | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56, the "Lion of the Senate" and the last remaining son of the prominent Democratic political family, passed away Tuesday night at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass. after a year-long battle with brain cancer...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass. Senator Ted Kennedy Dies at 77 | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

Throughout his years in office, Kennedy was particularly focused on reforming the nation's health care system, a passion showcased by his return to the U.S. Capitol last summer to vote on a Medicare bill while he was undergoing cancer treatment. Some supporters of health system reform efforts this summer had said they had hoped a viable reform would be ready in time for Kennedy to cast an "aye" vote...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass. Senator Ted Kennedy Dies at 77 | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...Even Kerry's family life has been gapping up. His daughter Vanessa is getting married in October, and he has thrown himself rather dramatically into wedding-planning, in part because his ex-wife Julia Thorne, Vanessa's mother, died of cancer in 2006. (Walking back to his office from the Senate floor recently, Kerry held forth at length about the coming nuptials and his hopes of persuading his daughter to do a Red Sox bridal-party outing.) Kerry isn't utterly changed, of course. He retains the sometimes aloof bearing that made him a hard sell to some voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Kerry: Back in the Hunt | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

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