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...good about sending their children to preschool this fall. According to a study in this month's Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention journal, children who attend day care or nursery school for at least one year before kindergarten are about 36% less likely than those not in preschool to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma as young adults. The study's scientists, from the Harvard School of Public Health, Yale University and Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, suggest that early contact with other kids' germs and exposure to common childhood infections help the immune system mature, making kids less susceptible to this form...
...found nowhere else on earth, and, says palm expert John Dransfield of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) at Kew in the U.K., "we are discovering new species at an astounding rate." Many, like the now-famous rosy periwinkle, a source of compounds used to treat leukemia and Hodgkin's disease, have huge medicinal potential. "It has become a cliché to describe Madagascar as a Noah's Ark," says Dransfield, "but it's true. If we lose Madagascar, we lose an irreplaceable asset." Conservationists are fighting hard to preserve what's left of Madagascar's biodiversity. Not far from...
...medical knowledge, you can't help worrying. The cough could mean just a cold, but it could also be a sign of lung cancer. A twinge might be internal bleeding. The lump is probably a lymph node--but is it bigger than it should be? Could it be Hodgkin's disease...
...stage drug-discovery firm. "There's a lot of concern about losing your money." Mullen's focus on diverse products, production synergies and profitability is already part of the culture at top industry players Amgen and Genentech. Biogen's Avonex for multiple sclerosis and IDEC's Rituxan for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma each generate more than $1 billion in annual sales, and both companies are solidly profitable. Yet "the combination will create more value than either could as separate entities," says William Rastetter, ceo of IDEC. That's why a wave of mergers could sweep the industry. There are only...
...also doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out this is junk science. School officials dispute the numbers Brockovich is throwing about. They say 216 claims have been filed against the school district, and only 94 of them involve cancers. And what about those specific cancers - Hodgkin's Lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and thyroid cancer - listed in the initial suit filed against the oil companies by the Brockovich firm? As the University of Southern California medical school's Cancer Surveillance Program flatly states, "Known causes of these cancers are not petroleum or petroleum products...