Word: hodgkins
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Lori E. Rifkin '00 was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease during winter break, when doctors told her she would have to undergo chemotherapy this semester to fight the cancer...
DIED. BRANDON TARTIKOFF, 48, NBC's programming wunderkind who gave the peacock network reason to strut; of Hodgkin's disease; in Los Angeles. Only 31 when he became NBC's entertainment president in 1980, Tartikoff turned the struggling network into The Place To Be with such hits as The Cosby Show and Hill Street Blues. (See Eulogy below...
Over the years they would have ferocious fights, and Allen would, after a Hodgkin's disease scare, quit the company and become estranged. But Gates worked hard to repair the relationship and eventually lured Allen, who is now one of the country's biggest high-tech venture-capital investors (and owner of the Portland Trail Blazers), back onto the Microsoft board. "We like to talk about how the fantasies we had as kids actually came true," Gates says. Now, facing their old classroom building at Lakeside is the modern brick Allen/Gates Science Center. (Gates lost the coin toss...
...expectancy in the U.S., which was 66.6 years for men in 1960 and 73.1 years for women, had by 1994 reached 72.3 and 79 for people born in that year. The death rate from heart attacks has dropped 30% in the past three decades. Treatments for certain childhood cancers, Hodgkin's disease and several other malignancies have improved dramatically. As the population ages, the quality of life for people in their 70s and older has greatly improved, aided by such innovations as artificial joints, lens implants and a wide assortment of pharmacological agents...
...still has much to prove. A second progress assessment--delivered in June 1995--applauded improved communication between the Red Cross and the FDA, but also included a long list of violations, some of them troubling. Its Birmingham unit, for instance, drew blood from donors with histories of malaria and Hodgkin's disease. "One of the continuing problems," the FDA warned, "is the failure of employees to follow prescribed procedures...