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...conference held in midtown Manhattan, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, contributed $2 million to conduct the study, joined top WHO officials to present the findings. Among the litany of sobering statistics: 5.4 million people die each year - one every six seconds - from lung cancer, heart disease or other illness directly linked to tobacco use. Smoking killed 100 million people in the 20th century, and the yearly death toll could pass 8 million as soon as 2030 - 80% of those deaths will be in the developing world, where tobacco use is growing most rapidly...
...some members of the New England Patriots offensive line have said that ditching the razor blade helped unify the team. Last fall, for the first time ever in the U.S., around 2,000 men participated in Movember--a monthlong mustache-growing competition that raises money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation...
Melanoma, a lethal human skin cancer, can be suppressed in mice by targeting cancer stem cells, according to a report from several Harvard authors in the Jan. 17 issue of Nature magazine...
...next three years, Medical School Professor J. Wade Harper and his laboratory will collaborate with Millennium to study the field and its role in regulating cancer cells, according to a Millenium press release...
Harvard and Millennium, a biopharmaceutical company, announced an agreement last Thursday to jointly advance research initiatives in protein homeostasis, considered a rapidly emerging area of cancer biology...