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...funk king's sound. As collaborators in the Famous Flames, the band that launched Brown, the pair co-wrote tunes, including Brown's signature Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine. On the recording, Byrd sings the recurring riff, "Get on up." He was 73 and had cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 1, 2007 | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...begin in mid-October, is currently awaiting final approval by the ethics committee at the University Hospital in Tübingen, Germany. There, in the renowned old research institution in the German southwest, neuro-oncologist Dr. Johannes Rieger wants to enroll patients with glioblastoma and astrocytoma, aggressive brain cancers for which there are hardly any sustainable therapies. Cell culture and animal experiments suggest that these tumors should respond particularly well to low-carb, high-fat diets. And, usually, these patients are physically sound, since the cancer affects only the brain. "We hope, and we have reason to believe, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a High-Fat Diet Beat Cancer? | 9/17/2007 | See Source »

Still, none of the researchers currently studying ketogenic diets, including Rieger, expects it to deliver anything close to a universal treatment for cancer. And none of them wants to create exaggerated hopes for a miracle cure in seriously ill patients, who may never benefit from the approach. But the recent findings are difficult to ignore. Robert Weinberg, a biology professor at MIT's Whitehead Institute who discovered the first human oncogene, has long been critical of therapeutic approaches based on the Warburg effect, and has certainly dismissed it as a primary cause of cancer. Nevertheless, he conceded, in an email...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a High-Fat Diet Beat Cancer? | 9/17/2007 | See Source »

...Hanzich made his mark on Harvard with his participation in a number of student organizations. He was vice president of the College Democrats, the secretary of intramural sports for Leverett House, and the director of Harvard’s Relay for Life cancer fundraiser...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hanzich ’06 Leaves a Legacy of Leadership | 9/17/2007 | See Source »

...Hanzich joined the American Cancer Society after a friend was diagnosed with cancer, Koh wrote in a letter to the law school community. Hanzich also volunteered in nursing homes and provided Spanish translation services to the poor in a Harvard Law School legal services clinic, Koh wrote...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hanzich ’06 Leaves a Legacy of Leadership | 9/17/2007 | See Source »

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