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...powerful idea, and there was some intriguing early evidence suggesting that something as simple as popping vitamin D might hold off the second biggest cancer killer among American women - breast cancer. So researchers were expecting to see positive results from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), the first controlled trial of the effects of vitamin D on breast cancer...
...relatively junior Senator and ranks no higher than fifth in seniority on any of her committees. On Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the panel that oversees the issue about which she has the most expertise and passion - health care - she ranks eighth. The chairman, Kennedy, has brain cancer but vows to play the lead role himself...
...local charities to support with a grant--any cause its members deem worthwhile. For instance, Party with Purpose, in Hoboken, N.J., has raised more than $125,000 to fight Alzheimer's and help preserve the oceans. In Charleston, S.C., Chicks with Checks has contributed big bucks to battle breast cancer and support a local hospice...
...graduate from Harvard Medical School and become known for writing best-selling science fiction novels on topics ranging from dinosaurs recreated from DNA to extraterrestrial spherical artifacts, eventually emerging as a strident popular critic of the science behind global warming. Crichton died unexpectedly after a private battle against throat cancer in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was 66.Esherick, who had not seen Crichton for a decade, said he heard the news on the radio yesterday morning and that he had been unaware of Crichton’s illness.Esherick, who is now a professor of Chinese studies at the University...
Written on Tuesday by McCain's close aide Mark Salter, the speech also evoked a constant theme of McCain's life, his absolute conviction in his own personal fortune, a run of luck that allowed him to survive five and a half years of imprisonment in Vietnam, multiple cancer scares, and repeated brushes with death as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot. "I have always been a fortunate man," he said...