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Progress on his international initiatives has been slowed, first by his wife's struggle with breast cancer late last year and then by his own surgery in January to remove a benign abdominal cyst. Warren had not preached since his wife began treatment last November, turning his duties over to his staff of ministers. When her chemo-therapy was completed, he returned to the pulpit late last month and moved forward on his global mission with renewed purpose. He wants each of Saddleback's 2,000 small groups to adopt a village in a developing country, make mission trips there...
...Coke's Well Goes Dry Coca-Cola postponed plans to relaunch Dasani in the U.K. after the purified tap water drink was found to contain illegal levels of cancer-causing chemicals. Plans to roll out the brand in France and Germany have also been shelved...
...true for mice, says Gosden, "you have to beware of extrapolation to humans." Tilly's group does have at least one indication that humans have something similar going on: women treated with busulfan almost always experience premature menopause, compared with fewer than half of women taking other cancer drugs. Says Tilly: "This is definitely a hint that these cells do exist...
...purify ovarian stem cells, then transfer them into depleted ovaries to see if they can restart egg production--first in mice, then, if possible, in humans. But if they can, Tilly envisions all sorts of benefits. You might extract the cells and freeze them, and if a woman got cancer, you could reintroduce them after chemotherapy shut down her ovaries. Or you might freeze some of the vigorous stem cells in a young woman so she would have a reserve supply as those in her body aged and weakened. Or, if you could keep existing stem cells viable longer, says...
DIED. MARSHALL FRADY, 64, reporter who documented the South's social and political upheaval during the civil-rights era; of cancer; in Greenville, S.C., where he had recently joined the faculty of his alma mater, Furman University. The son of a Southern Baptist minister in Georgia, he wrote seven books, including a 1968 biography of Alabama Governor George Wallace, and later became an Emmy-winning correspondent for ABC's documentary unit...