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...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a drug last Thursday anticipated to be a revolutionary development in the fight against cancer...
Folkman’s anti-angiogenesis studies made the news in 1998 by successfully curing mice of cancer...
...couldn’t test patients in early stages of cancer, only terminally-ill patients who often had failed numerous chemotherapies, which made them more resistant to our drugs,” Folkman said...
...effectively combat global warming. A few months ago, two Harvard juniors launched a nonprofit organization called CollegeCorps that will enable students to volunteer for international humanitarian efforts in developing countries around the world. The annual Evening with Champions organized by Eliot House students has raised over $2.2 million for cancer research and care since its creation in 1970. This weekend, thousands of high school students are coming together to promote civic responsibility through Harvard’s student-run Model Congress convention. This list certainly goes on, but while these truly extraordinary efforts by students have gone widely unnoticed both...
...asked makers of HRT pills (most of which contain the hormones progestin and estrogen) to add another warning to their labels: that HRT may raise the risk of dementia in older women. A watershed 2002 study had already linked the drugs to increased risk of breast cancer, heart attack and stroke, leading experts to conclude that for many women the risks of long-term use outweigh the benefits. The recent FDA directive was based on data published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association showing that women on Prempro doubled their risk of Alzheimer's. --By Sora...