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...When the lung cancer drug Iressa won approval from the Food and Drug Administration almost a year ago, it showed great promise as a tumor suppressor with side effects far less severe than those of chemotherapy...
...HOSPITALIZED. DIEGO MARADONA, 43, legendary soccer player who led Argentina to the 1986 World Cup championship, with heart and lung problems; in Buenos Aires. Maradona, who survived a heart attack in 2000, fell ill after watching his former club play and was placed in intensive care, where his condition improved during the week. Maradona is best known for scoring two goals?one with his hand?to defeat England in 1986, but his brilliance waned due to cocaine abuse and he retired in 1997. Argentine doctors denied that his hospitalization was drug related...
...help. Three years ago, a study sponsored by the National Eye Institute showed that a high-dose regimen of vitamins (including C, E and beta-carotene) plus zinc was moderately successful for intermediate cases of AMD. (Smokers should not take beta-carotene, as it may increase their risk of lung cancer.) Most important of all are regular visits to an eye doctor, who can monitor the risk of AMD as well as other more readily treatable causes of blindness, like cataracts and glaucoma...
...Creek is an extreme case. But like Tolstoy's unhappy families, every Superfund site is tragic and contentious in its own way. In Libby, Mont., a massive mine blanketed the town with asbestos dust, killing at least 215 people and sickening 1,100 more with cancer and lung disease--yet cleanup funds have been cut so sharply that it could take 10 to 15 years to finish the job. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, miners dumped 60 million tons of toxic metals into waterways, but state officials are fighting a Superfund cleanup, fearing a stigma that might hurt tourism...
Female smokers have come a long way, baby, indeed. A report in J.A.M.A. warns that the extraordinary increase in lung-cancer deaths among U.S. women may soon be repeated in Asia and Africa, where taboos against women's smoking are weakening. The authors call for antismoking campaigns and for including more women in clinical studies, to better understand apparent gender differences in the disease. Unraveling that mechanism, the researchers stress, could ultimately help both men and women...