Word: lungful
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...attention-grabbing April Dana-Farber Cancer Institute study that explained why the lung cancer drug Iressa was so successful relied on Broad’s resources. Lander said it relied on Broad’s facilities to run a large-scale analysis that revealed a mutation in some lung cancer patients that dramatically increases their responsiveness to Iressa...
...nine years, Canadian triathlete Jasper Blake has been selecting from a menu of technological aids in a bid to get to the top of his event?a leg-sapping, lung-wringing combination of swimming, cycling and running that only the fittest, and perhaps dorkiest, athletes can win. "Triathlon is a nerdy sport," says the intense, lean, 1.7-m Blake. "We have the weirdest group of people into the most gimmicky, gizmo things...
...partnered with a company called BodyMedia on a study in which rural diabetes patients use wireless glucose meters and armband sensors to monitor their disease. And last fall, Yahoo began offering subscribers the ability to chart their asthma conditions online, using a PDA-size respiratory monitor that measures lung functions in real time and e-mails the data directly to doctors...
...British Medical Journal published a landmark study in 1954 that helped establish the link between smoking and lung cancer. Last week the journal published a 50-year update of the massive research project on which that paper was based--the longest smoking study ever--which calculated that cigarettes took an average of 10 years off the lives of smokers who never quit. The study, which began in 1951 and ended in 2001, followed 35,000 male doctors and found that kicking the habit reduced mortality rates on a sliding scale. Quit at 60, and you gain three years of life...
...year later, Jacobs got the bad news that cancer was starting to grow again in her lungs. This time, however, the doctors had something else to offer. Two new anticancer drugs that target cancer cells more precisely and with less toxicity had been approved by the FDA. (Two more have since been approved.) Jacobs' doctors at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston enrolled her in a clinical trial for a combination of two of those agents, Tarceva and Avastin, last August. "The difference is like night and day," says Jacobs. "I take a pill every day, and every three...