Word: cancerous
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Yesterday, Amoco and Chevron both announced that they will start warning customers not to use cellular phones near their gas pumps. It seems that electronic impulses from the phones could start a fire. Cellular phones also cause brain cancer...
...sake, hang up - it?s gonna blow! Cell phones are annoying, they cause car accidents, and they may give you brain cancer. Now, it seems, they may be combustible. Almost sheepishly claiming that "prudence is probably the best policy," BP Amoco spokeswoman Linda McCray announced Friday that cell phone use near fuel pumps at its U.S. gas stations will now be verboten. "This is not a ban - this is a precautionary warning," she explained, pointing to the very slim possibility that a malfunctioning cell phone could generate sparks and cause an entire station - not to mention the offending gabber...
...real issue is not how to make group health plans pay more, but how to keep Americans from getting critically ill in the first place," Bloom writes in an Oct. 11 piece titled, "The Wrong Rights." He addresses the problems behind the nation's top killers: heart disease, cancer, stroke and injuries...
Come up to where the cancer is. That would be China, according to a study released Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that 2 million people a year will be dying of smoking-related illnesses in China 20 years from now. Based on projections developed from illness patterns in the West, the study's authors predict that 50 million of China's 320 million smokers will die prematurely as a result of their habit. Equally disturbing, the surveys found that most Chinese smokers were woefully uneducated about the health risks posed by smoking, with only...
...Zejnullahus saw their father, a prominent doctor in the city of Peja, killed in their home by Serbian paramilitary members last November--just one year after their mother had died of cancer. The day of their father's funeral, they met Instructor of Psychiatry Ruth A. Barron and Assistant Professor of Medicine Jennifer Leaning, who were investigating crimes against doctors and health clinics in Kosovo for Physicians for Human Rights...