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...wonder drug has made a wondrous comeback. In recent years it has been shown to be a powerful inhibitor of heart attacks and strokes -- a virtue neither acetaminophen nor ibuprofen can match. And last week came preliminary evidence of another major benefit: aspirin reduces the risk of death from colon cancer, a disease that kills 50,000 Americans a year. A major study by the American Cancer Society, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that people who took 16 aspirin tablets or more each month (or equivalent doses of related but lesser known anti-inflammatory drugs...
...assigned to take aspirin, it is possible that those who did were generally more health conscious than average and less likely to develop cancer in the first place. Or perhaps aspirin users had more internal bleeding than the others -- a common side effect of aspirin -- and therefore had their colon cancers detected early and cured readily. The study did not measure the actual ( incidence of colon cancer, just deaths resulting from...
FEAR REIGNED for the larger part of the campaign. In a style that has become far too common on the island, the state-hooders employed defamatory tactics, accusing Governor Rafael Hernandez-Colon and his Popular Democratic Party of rebuffing the United States and pursuing a separatist ideological course. Under the leadership of Dr. Pedro Rosello, the prostatehood New Progressive Party unleashed a campaign of fear, aimed at equating the "Si," or affirmative response, with a vote of confidence to the governor for an additional term as well as an increase in crime, drug-addiction, alcoholism, mental illness, unemployment, social upheaval...
Offering the referendum, no one doubts, was politically motivated. Governor Hernandez-Colon's stakes for issuing it were very high on a personal as well as partisan level. He knew that losing would mean his political death and gravely weaken the Popular Democratic Party. But he had no reason to expect defeat and was pressured to assert the validity of the commonwealth option as an alternative to statehood...
Rosenberg and his team have permission from the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to treat 15 people with TNF-gene- altered cells, including patients with advanced kidney or colon cancer. Another 15 individuals with the same diseases may receive injections of tumor cells that have been genetically altered to produce interleukin-2 -- a protein that stimulates tumor-fighting lymphocytes -- instead of TNF. All the patients have failed to respond to standard therapy...