Word: cancer
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...harm reduction is a widely accepted treatment model. In Europe and Canada, government-funded antiaddiction programs routinely help alcoholic patients reduce drinking, even if they won't quit; in Sweden, health officials suggest that cigarette smokers switch to snus (smokeless tobacco), which, unlike smoking, is not associated with lung cancer or cardiovascular disease. American proponents of moderation also argue that by demanding complete sobriety, it is possible that we are missing the chance to improve the health of smokers or problem drinkers who cannot or are not ready to stop entirely...
North Korea does not appear to be in the strongest of bargaining positions. The country's Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, may be dying, afflicted with pancreatic cancer, according to some accounts. His designated successor is his youngest son, about whom next to nothing is known except that he is in his 20s. There are reports of a power struggle now under way in Pyongyang, as the leadership faces the prospect of life without...
Yale's School of Medicine has recruited its second major Harvard faculty member this year as part of an aggressive three-pronged expansion into clinical neuroscience, cancer, and cardiovascular disease research—initiatives sustained despite ongoing financial duress...
...April, Thomas J. Lynch, Jr., former chief of hematology and oncology at the Mass. General Cancer Center, left Harvard after 23 years to become director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Yale had also appointed a new chief of cardiology from Dartmouth last summer...
...Harvard's neurology program significantly, given its depth of researchers, but noted that the appointment would be a "major improvement" for Yale's department. He also said that Harvard and Yale have traditionally collaborated in research, despite their friendly competition, and that Harvard faculty had helped Yale build its cancer center...