Word: couric
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...Today” show co-host Katie Couric received the School of Public Health’s highest honor yesterday for her efforts to increase national colon cancer awareness...
...many years before Katie Couric put her blessing on the place, the estimable Gertrude Stein laid eyes on the spanking-new Rockefeller Center. She planted herself on the Fifth Avenue side, gazed down toward the RCA Building and, in that singular way of hers, pronounced the view "the most beautiful thing I have ever seen ever seen ever seen...
When NBC television personality Katie Couric underwent a colonoscopy live on national TV in March 2000, she did more than show the world the insides of her bowels. Couric, whose husband died from colon cancer at age 42, also significantly raised the rate at which Americans signed up for a colon-cancer screening. In a study that appears in the current issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, a team of researchers from Michigan and Iowa reports that colonoscopy rates across the U.S. jumped more than 20% following Couric's examination...
...cancer, and more than 56,000 will die from the disease, making it the second leading cause of cancer deaths, according to the National Cancer Institute. Many of these deaths could have been avoided if people were not so squeamish about undergoing colonoscopy, which is what makes the "Katie Couric effect," as researchers have dubbed it, so important. --By David Bjerklie
...Rating for the Tonight Show on Monday when Today show anchor Katie Couric sat in for Jay Leno...