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...Prosecutors never filed criminal insider-trading charges, though, and Stewart handed her tormentors a comparatively easy obstruction case when, as the jury decided last week, she lied to cover up why she had sold 3,928 shares of ImClone Systems on the eve of an adverse ruling for its cancer drug Erbitux. Stewart could probably have come clean immediately and received a slap on the wrist from the Securities and Exchange Commission (sec). But by sticking to a bogus story, she turned a civil case into a criminal one. "When we first indicted this case, we said it was about...
Stewart got a hot tip. her first mistake, clearly, was to sell the ImClone stock, given the impetus for doing so. The bio-tech firm that was then run by her friend Sam Waksal had been riding high on its promising cancer drug. But on Dec. 26, 2001, Waksal got wind that the FDA was going to reject his company's application to move forward with its drug. The Waksal family sent word to Bacanovic, their broker as well as Stewart's, and tried to sell $7.3 million of ImClone stock. Waksal has since pleaded guilty to securities fraud...
There's a fourth reason: steroids can kill. Athletes in any sport might consider football's Lyle Alzado, an all-pro defensive lineman who took anabolic steroids throughout his career and later believed they were linked to the brain cancer that killed him. "Now I'm sick, and I'm scared," he said just before his death, at 43, in 1992. "Look at me. My hair's gone, I wobble when I walk and have to hold on to someone for support, and I have trouble remembering things. My last wish? That no one else ever dies this...
...years ago, the NIH cut short the part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study that looked at the long-term use of a combination treatment including estrogen and progestin. Reason: women in the study were showing increased risk of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer. Last week's announcement concerns estrogen alone, which, it turns out, slightly increases a woman's risk of stroke but not of heart disease or breast cancer...
...between the two treatments is crucial because estrogen alone is taken by a lot more women in the U.S. (a total of 5.6 million, if you're counting) than the estrogen-progestin combination (2 million). Since estrogen in the absence of progestin increases a woman's risk of uterine cancer, it's given to women who have had a hysterectomy...