Word: cancerous
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Minority women have shorter life expectancies and are less likely to receive adequate prenatal care than white women. Black women, in particular, have the highest rates of death from cerebrovascular disease, and while breast cancer death rates have declined among white women, they have increased for black women, center officials said...
...Well, the AIDS thing is something that I did for about 6 or 7 years, and now I'm not doing any more. But now I live back in New York, and my mother's breast cancer foundation is there, so I've kind of, again, logistically and geographically moved my philanthropic endeavors to that cause. Also, for the fact that now I'm back in New York [sic], my mother said, "I'll kick your ass if you don't do what I tell you." I just had a huge celebrity golf tournament for my mom--we raised...
Current institute projects include research on cancer among minorities and the medically under-served, improving civilian medical response to chemical and biological terrorism, prevention of perinatal transmission of HIV, medical use of marijuana and dietary recommendations...
Willett, who has been at HSPH since 1980 and chair of the Department of Nutrition for five years, said he studies dietary factors and other lifestyle behaviors in relation to cancer, cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses...
Ever since Hussein's previous cancer scare, in 1992, which cost him a kidney, the King has turned over more responsibility to his brother. The palace has worked on showcasing Hassan and improving his aloof image. No longer does the prince approach crowds with his hands behind his back, as he once did. Now, his arms are outstretched in the manner of the King--and a politician. "These days he can glad-hand like the best of them," says the diplomat. But, says a palace official, "the King relates to the people instinctively, while Hassan tries to understand them always...