Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clots & Cancer. On the key issue of whether the pills are really safe, the formal report took refuge behind a double negative: "The committee finds no adequate scientific data, at this time, proving these compounds unsafe for human use." A committee spokesman translated: "We wanted to put a word of caution, to put a yellow light, not a green light, on the matter...
...dancer and choreographer who was trained as a classical ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the 1920s, but soon joined with Martha Graham and other rebels to pioneer modern American dance, later choreographed such Broadway hits as Up in Central Park, Annie Get Your Gun and Fanny; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Santos Martin Molina, 65, primate of the Spanish Reformed Church, a tiny Episcopal congregation (3,500 members) in an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country, who fought all his life for religious freedom in Spain-with enough success to say recently that "many of the great difficulties are disappearing"; of stomach cancer; in Madrid...
...What often troubles cases like the Deutsches' is the key question of "causation in fact"-the same issue that complicates cancer suits against tobacco companies. Clearly, the law cannot accept the fact that every event has causes reaching to the ends of time. The law's causation tests ask, for example, whether the event would have occurred "but for" the defendant's conduct: his conduct is not a cause if the event would have occurred anyway. Though a hotel failed to install proper fire escapes, it is not liable for the death of a guest who succumbs...
...jury was not permitted to assume that brain damage resulted from the repressed birth, and medical testimony was essential. All this makes the plaintiff's burden of proof exceedingly hard to carry when the effect appears long after the cause-for example, in radiation sickness or in lung cancer allegedly caused by cigarettes. Things get really complex when there may be two or more possibly equal causes. Example: A dies from the simultaneous effects of a shooting by B and a stabbing...