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DIED. DANA REEVE, 44, singer, actress and widow of Superman actor Christopher Reeve who raised millions for research on treatments for paralysis after her husband became a quadriplegic after a 1995 horseback-riding accident; of lung cancer; in New York City. Reeve, a nonsmoker who lost her husband in 2004 and her mother just four months later, had her cancer diagnosed last August...
...just that kind of early-warning leverage that cancer doctors are starting to exploit. Their latest strategies take advantage of the fact that some cancers actually show a gender preference. Women who smoke, for example, are three times as likely to develop lung cancer as men who light up, and scientists at Cell Therapeutics found to their surprise that the reason for the difference was estrogen. In the presence of that hormone, which circulates in higher levels in women, lung cells are exposed to more of the carcinogens in cigarette smoke. Harnessing estrogen's ability to speed up some metabolic...
DIED. BRUCE HART, 68, original lyricist for PBS's Sesame Street who co-wrote the sweetly optimistic theme song to the Emmy Award--winning children's show ("Can you tell me how to get/ How to get to Sesame Street?"); of lung cancer; in New York City...
...walks to and from the train each day, Skinner says people should appreciate the fact that the EPA was responsive to a local complaint and acted quickly to bring the company's attention to what could be a health risk to children, the elderly and people with heart and lung diseases...
...Still, the results of these studies, which were sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, cannot be ignored, or easily dismissed. This is by far the largest, most scientifically rigorous attempt ever to test a low-fat diet-defined as 20% or less of total calories coming from fat. Researchers randomly divided the participants into two groups, worked hard to get one group to cut its fat intake and then compared the results for each of them for the next several years...