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...drug that has proven effective in fighting cancer might cause heart troubles. Gleevec, as national news sources widely reported late this summer, has been linked to 10 cases of congestive heart failure. Gleevec has also, as has been less widely reported, been linked to thousands of lives saved. Concerns about “another Vioxx” may be blindly accepted, leading the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to increase regulation and make it harder for patients to get access to live-saving medication...
...should we give more weight to the risks of taking a positive action—in this case, consuming a potentially useful drug—than to the risks of inaction? Why is it scarier that a drug will cause us heart trouble than that not taking a targeted cancer-killer will result in our deaths? Rationally speaking, it’s not: A death from a heart attack is not much worse than a death from colon cancer. So, if I have cancer and Gleevec makes it 20 percent less likely that I will die from that cancer...
DIED. Buddy Killen, 73, powerful Nashville music publisher and songwriter who launched the careers of Dolly Parton and Whisperin' Bill Anderson and turned Tree International, the company he ran with Grand Ole Opry manager Jack Stapp, into a music-publishing titan; of liver and pancreatic cancer; in Nashville. Killen's songs became hits for performers like Conway Twitty (I May Never Get to Heaven) and the Little Dippers (Forever). In 1989, in a deal that marked a new high for country music, he sold Tree International to CBS for more than $30 million...
Media publicity generated this week over a Harvard Web site that allows people to assess their risk for five common diseases in the United States caused the site to be temporarily inaccessible due to heavy traffic. Yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu, created by the Harvard Center for Cancer Protection (HCCP) at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), features a risk index for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoperosis, and stroke. An article about the site published in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday caused 22,000 people with unique IP addresses to try the site in a two-hour window, according to Webmaster...
...initially healthy American women have been monitored. Genetic samples from each of the women will undergo a comprehensive genome-wide scan looking for 317,000 potential genetic differences between the women who remain healthy and those who have suffered from a serious illness like a heart attack, breast cancer, or diabetes. Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel, director of the NBHLI, said that eventually the genomic database will be made available for scientists worldwide, allowing for new discoveries in drug development and personalized disease treatment and prevention. “The hope is to get the right drug to the right patient...