Word: cancer
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...challenges that greeted Hammonds in her professional life over the past year, as well as her reserved personality, have prevented her from gaining the trust of the student body as the chief College administrator. And in her personal life, the diagnosis of her wife, Alexandra, with cancer soon after her acceptance of the deanship has compounded the struggles of the past year...
...clippings can be collected to measure toxins, hormone levels, or genes. These observations over time allow for an in depth understanding of the reasons for health and risks for disease. A great advantage of cohort studies is that they enable scientists to study multiple diseases (for example heart diseases, cancer, stroke) and multiple risk factors (diet, exercise, air quality) over an individual’s lifetime...
...continent being hit with a double dose of disease. Infections including tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS have been seen as Africa’s major health burden. But now, in addition to these, there is a rising epidemic of chronic, non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, mental illnesses, trauma, cancer, diabetes, and obesity. Chronic diseases are projected to cause more deaths in the region than infectious diseases...
...many things as a physician, all the things that he’s really good at,” Rosenthal’s daughter Laura Hrasky said. Rosenthal’s career also reaches far beyond Harvard’s walls. He was the President of the American Cancer Society in 1998 and remains involved with the organization. Rosenthal has also been the medical director of the Zakim Center for Integrated Therapies at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Despite his involvement in other institutions, friends and family say Rosenthal’s passion for Harvard stands out. Hrasky recalls attending...
...only known photograph of Jong Un to circulate outside the North, a snapshot the chef took when the boy was about 11. He is the son of Kim Jong Il's third wife - reportedly his favorite - Ko Young Hee, a former dancer who died in 2004 from breast cancer. Ko was born in Japan but moved back to North Korea with her father in the 1960s...