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...abortion raised a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer 50% on average. But, as an editorial in the NCI Journal points out, that is just about the smallest risk such a study can detect. (By contrast, a heavy smoker faces a 3000% jump in the odds of developing lung cancer.) Nonetheless, antiabortion groups suspected that the media's caution reflected a pro-choice bias. "Even if you want to say the study is inconclusive, I think women have a right to know," says Paige Cunningham, president of Americans United for Life. "Physicians routinely tell patients about much smaller risks...
Dust from cut plaster and exotic woods can be lung and skin irritants. Last year, a student developed a skin rash resembling poison Ivy after cutting some exotic wood, Doyle said...
...Cystic fibrosis patients taking the drug Pulmozyme showed a reduction in lung infection and improvement in breathing, a study has found. The drug is the first new treatment for the disease in three decades...
...with drafts of the EPA report, it will say that dioxin remains a serious potential threat to human health and that possible links between the chemical and health problems, among them reproductive ills, should be further explored. "This study ranks with the Surgeon General's pronouncement that smoking causes lung cancer," says Sierra Club pollution expert George Colling, prematurely and hyperbolically, in the latest issue of the organization's monthly newspaper. And Peter deFur of the Environmental Defense Fund predicts that the document will lead to much tighter regulations, and in some cases even a ban, on the release...
Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein died of lung cancer in his Belmont home Tuesday night...