Word: lunges
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Public-health studies suggest that people who live in mountaintop mining areas have "higher rates of lung cancer, chronic lung, heart and kidney disease mortality [and] lower birth rates" than average, possibly caused by breathing in coal dust or absorbing harmful chemicals, says Dr. Michael Hendryx, a professor of community medicine at West Virginia University, who studies health effects from mining...
...What was unique in our approach was that we were interested in alterations across different cancer types,” said HMS student Craig H. Mermel. “We want to stop looking at brain cancer or lung cancer but instead diagnose cancer by mutations common to the disease...
...think that it is part of the change in cancer diagnosis as no longer looking at cancer as lung cancer or breast cancer, but as caused by a particular type of genetic alteration,” Meyerson said...
...promise of their findings has already prompted funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Sarah Thomas Monopoli Lung Cancer Research Fund, the Lucas Foundation, and several drug companies—most notably Novartis—in the hope of developing drugs that may specifically target common genetic alterations across cancer types...
Levine spoke about lung disease on behalf of drug companies like AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline for about 18 years but says he does not plan to take on any more speaking engagements until the implications of the policy become clearer...