Word: lunge
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...discovery, said Sir Walter Bodmer, director of research at London's Imperial Cancer Research Fund and a principal investigator, may eventually enable doctors to provide better diagnosis and treatment for all patients with colon cancer, which in the West is the second most deadly form of the disease, after lung cancer...
Surveying 11,600 houses in ten states from Wyoming to Alabama, EPA investigators found that 21% had radon levels exceeding EPA health standards. The American Medical Association promptly declared radon a "risk of substantial magnitude" but described as "somewhat uncertain" federal estimates that attribute 10% of lung-cancer deaths...
DIED. Nathan Perlmutter, 64, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith since 1979; of lung cancer; in New York City. Born of Polish immigrant parents, Perlmutter originally joined the A.D.L. in 1949 to handle civil rights operations in Denver. Last month he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by Ronald Reagan, who cited "his life work to champion human dignity...
Prostate cancer is the third most common cancer in men, after skin cancer and lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. About one of 11 men will develop prostate cancer at some point in his life, the society says...
...anyway. Benshoof concedes that development of an artificial womb could change the picture. A handful of U.S. medical centers now use a constellation of devices that can assume some heart, lung, kidney and even digestive functions for full-term babies born with certain problems. Because the machines require the use of anticoagulants, they do not work for most preemies, who risk brain hemorrhages if given such drugs. But should technology leap this hurdle, it could reduce the viability standard to an absurdity. Asks David Rothman, professor of social medicine at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons: "Are we then...