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...benefit is not as great, the risk of complications looms larger. Surgery is just a first step. A person who receives a face transplant will need to take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of his or her life. Side effects from these medications may lead to diabetes, cancer and even death. Despite all that, the body may still reject the new face, leading to more and more complicated surgery...
...former director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), who is currently under congressional investigation regarding a 2002 NCI grant to Harvard, said last week that he will step down from his current position as head of the Global Health program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
After a two-year investigation, the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) last month asking the GAO to further investigate Klausner’s role in the awarding of the grant. The confidential letter was posted on the website of the Cancer Letter earlier this month...
...these areas. It's difficult to identify trends if we've never had confirmed data." What he and others can say for sure, however, is that oral sex carries plenty of dangers of its own, including syphilis, gonorrhea and herpes, as well as papilloma virus, which can cause cervical cancer. "Since we have evidence that kids are engaging in oral sex," says Rachel Jones of the Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York City, "we need to provide them with information about the public-health consequences and how they can avoid them." And that can happen without waiting for any more...
DIED. SUSAN ANNE CATHERINE TORRES, 5 weeks old, born three months premature to her brain-dead, cancer-stricken mother who was kept on life support for three months to save the baby; after emergency surgery for a perforated intestine; in Washington...