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...could you leave out the fabulous, irreverent writer Molly Ivins? She died of breast cancer on Jan. 31, 2007, at age 62, in Austin, Texas. She was a co-editor of the Texas Observer; worked for the New York Times, Dallas Times-Herald and Fort Worth Star-Telegram; and later became a syndicated columnist. She also wrote for TIME and authored numerous books. In all her writings, Ivins stood up against the lies of the powerful. She devoted her life to questioning authority. She minced no words, and her loyal readers cannot find the words to say how sorely they...
...worst news items of 2007 were: #1 Continuation of world poverty. #2 No cure for AIDS or cancer. #3 Human-rights violations and beating of monks in Burma. #4 Inflation around the world. #5 Political instability in India and Pakistan. #6 I could not become a movie star. I had planned a career move, since the pay is better in cinema than in professional management. But I failed. Raju Aneja, DUBAI
Mention Dr. Judah Folkman's name to colleagues and patients and only the grandest descriptors come to their lips - words like "giant in his field," "visionary," "genius," and "ahead of his time." Credited with revolutionizing cancer treatment with the theory that preventing angiogenesis, or new blood-vessel growth, would starve tumors, the director of vascular biology at Children's Hospital and professor of pediatric surgery at Harvard Medical School died on Monday in Denver...
...mind his father's advice to be a "rabbi-like doctor," Folkman honed two often competing abilities, becoming both a razor-sharp researcher and a compassionate clinician. "He would take time to lecture students on how to interact with everyone," says Dr. Steven Brem, director of neurosurgery at Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida and a former student of Folkman's at Harvard Medical School. "I remember one of the things he said - 'When you talk to a bereaved family who has just lost a loved one, talk to them as if the person is still alive, because the family...
...chairman of pediatric surgery at Children's Hospital, so he would do surgery and see patients during day, then at night he would have dinner from six to eight, then work in the lab from eight to two a.m." That dedication led Folkman to change the way cancer is treated today. His hunch, dating to his early days in the lab in the 1960s, that cancer tumors rely on the formation of new blood vessels for nourishment and growth, has since led to six FDA-approved anticancer drugs that weaken tumors by blocking their blood supply. "The idea...