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...terrors of HIV followed the joys of the sexual revolution, so it seems that Pfizer's anti-impotence wonder drug, Viagra, carries with it more health risks than anyone suspected. According to research published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, side effects can include fatal lung complications (for you) and bladder infections (for your partner -- a more poignant trade...
DIED. LEROY EDGAR BURNEY, 91, Surgeon General from 1956 to 1961 and the first in that office to implicate smoking as a cause of lung cancer; in Arlington Heights, Ill. Burney's pronouncements helped set the stage for the Surgeon General's landmark antismoking report...
...patients who suffer from the most common type of lung cancer, postoperative radiation therapy is often a routine part of treatment. But a study published last week urges re-evaluation of this practice, showing that radiation actually raises the relative risk of death 21% and that its effects are most detrimental for those in the early stages of the illness, pushing survival chances below...
Buffalo Bob Smith -- born Robert E. Smith -- died at his North Carolina home Thursday of lung cancer. He was 80. But to millions of baby boomers, the genial cowboy-suited host of "The Howdy Doody Show" will never pass away. Even though the NBC show went off the air in 1960 after 13 seasons and more than 2,500 shows, Buffalo Bob and the redheaded, freckle-faced marionette who loved to tease him remain an indelible memory from the Golden Age of TV. "No one knows how hard we worked all those years," Smith told PEOPLE in 1987. "Live...
...gritty world of drinking, joblessness, back-alley drug deals and disillusioned immigrants; a world where corporations crush workers, governments lie to their citizens, and punk rock offers one of the few paths toward salvation. The songs on the California-based band's new album have names like Bloodclot, Black Lung and Cash, Culture & Violence; the guitar work is raw and roaring; and the quartet's two singer-guitarists, scraggly-voiced Tim Armstrong and bellowing Lars Frederiksen, both tend to slur and snarl their way through songs...