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...Sitter and Joe and the Annulment will have joined Amy and Joey and Donald and Marla in the landfill of tabloid dreck. And to paraphrase Senator Kennedy's speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1980, the teeth still sparkle, the hair is thick, and the dream will never die...
...Just as a pregnancy test can detect the proteins of a 10-day-old fetus in the mother's circulatory system, similar tests can detect proteins on cancer cells released by a tumor that is itself only dozens of cells large. Most of these migrating cells die during the journey. Others are more menacing--pioneers programmed to seed new growth in distant tissues. Either way, as epithelial cells--closely packed, multilayered cells of which most solid tumors are made--they are oddballs in their new fluid environment. "It's like splitting a deck of cards into red and black suits...
About 90% of Americans say they support organ donation, but only 30% have actually signed up to part with their parts after they die. The cost of such an all-take, no-give setup is high. Nearly 100,000 patients in the U.S. are idling on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) matching list, waiting for a donor--and 18 a day will die waiting. The recent hoax in the Netherlands, in which reality-show contestants pretended to compete for an organ from a dying woman, was an effort to draw attention to the global scope of the problem...
...former insurance executive, Undis is the founder of the Nashville-based nonprofit Lifesharers. Launched in 2002, Lifesharers is a no-fee network of about 9,000 members nationwide who have pledged to donate their organs when they die--but only to other members on the list. To avoid "freeloaders"--as Undis calls them--you must have signed up at least 180 days before...
...would like to see a comparison of how many people in this country die each year as a result of taking herbal supplements and how many die each year as a result of faulty prescription-medicine usage. Print that; then let's talk some more. Perry Robinson, Seymour, Tennessee...