Word: curing
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...fear that the battle against cancer has turned into a study of greed. I am 60 and have been watching family members die from cancer all my life--among them were my grandfather and uncle, both nonsmokers who died of lung cancer. I believe scientists could find a cure, but will there ever be one? I can't believe so. How many jobs would no longer be necessary if a cure were found? Cancer has become big, big business. S. Michael Long, LEVITTOWN...
...lifesaver for one group of overweight patients: those with diabetes. Several recent studies have reported that the surgery not only reduces patients' risk of death - particularly from obesity-related diseases, including diabetes and coronary artery disease - but that in some patients with diabetes the surgery is practically a cure, resulting in normalization of blood sugar, often within days. That's part of the reason that gastric bypass is now the most commonly performed weight-loss surgery in the U.S., with nearly 140,000 procedures done each year...
...findings, published in late August on the Web site of the British journal Nature, have implications for finding a new treatment or cure for diabetes...
...With passions running so high, resolving Indonesia's economic ills won't be easy - although economists and officials say the cure is straightforward enough: the government has to demarcate federal, provincial and local powers, and reconcile conflicting laws. "We have to make regional governments aware that their regulations must comply with the higher regulations," says Purnomo, the mineral-resources minister. Indonesia also has to further liberalize its economy to encourage greater investment from both foreign and local enterprises, by, for example, loosening up the labor market and lifting remaining restrictions on foreign investment in certain sectors, such as transport...
...made sure it got the most from its grant dollars by adopting an enforced-collaboration model in 2004, linking work at four cancer centers into a consortium managed by PricewaterhouseCoopers and providing them all with patients, tissue samples and a set of targets and goals. "The odds of a cure coming from one center are nil," Giusti says. "You need a mutual fund to fight cancer." From not having a single drug in the pipeline, the MMRF now has 30, half of them in clinical trials. The average lifespan of a multiple-myeloma patient has been extended by three years...