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...third Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner; in Washington. The promotion of Von Eschenbach, who has been acting FDA chief since the resignation of Lester Crawford last September, promptly stalled over the controversy surrounding Plan B, the "morning after" pill. A urology surgeon who has led the National Cancer Institute since 2002 (he now plans to retire from that job), Von Eschenbach enters a long-simmering battle. The Bush Administration has so far delayed a decision on whether to approve the emergency contraceptive pill for over-the-counter use despite a green light from FDA scientists. Critics, including Democratic Senators...
...each exists in his or her own little universe. Georgina, 51, who works for a display-cabinet maker, is tidying up the living room as Bronte works, not that her daughter notices. Stephen, 49, who juggles jobs as a squash coach, fitness trainer, event planner and head of a cancer charity he founded, has wolfed down his dinner alone in the kitchen, having missed supper with the kids. He, too, typically spends the evening on his cell phone and returning e-mails--when he can nudge Bronte off the computer. "One gets obsessed with one's gadgets," he concedes...
...woman who has been faithfully swallowing her daily calcium supplements in hopes of staving off osteoporosis and colorectal cancer can be forgiven for being confused by news last month that two major studies found that the pills provide little or no benefit against either condition. But as is so often the case with complicated health studies, it pays to dig beyond the headlines. First the news. A study of more than 36,000 healthy postmenopausal women determined that taking a standard calcium-and-vitamin-D supplement for seven years had no significant effect for most of them on preventing fractures...
Gardasil protects against four types of human papillomavirus, which account for the vast majority of the 500,000 cervical-cancer cases and the 32 million new cases of genital warts around the world each year. Last fall Merck released encouraging results from its clinical trial in which 755 healthy sexually active women were injected with the protective shots three times over six months and none developed precancerous growths in the cervix after four years...
...addition, Goldman has written several books analyzing mucosal biopsies, tissue samples taken from intestinal lining. He is currently conducting research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston (BIDMC), focusing on early cancer diagnosis through biopsy analysis...