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...Doctors have a new clue to understanding crib death, the syndrome that causes 5,000 babies a year to suffocate for no apparent reason while sleeping. A study reveals increased numbers of immune cells in the lung tissues of victims. This may be a sign that their immune systems are overresponding to an as-yet-unknown stimulus, generating symptoms analogous to a severe allergic reaction...
Adding to the anti-smoking furor is a new study showing that women who don't smoke but live with a spouse who does, run a 30 percent greater risk of getting lung cancer than women in a smoke-free household. The research effort, the largest of its kind, also found that the more the mate smoked, the greater the risk for the woman. But even women without a smoking spouse increase their chances of lung cancer through exposure to secondhand smoke at work or in social settings, the study found...
...welcome news to the industry. At about the same time -- the summer of 1983 -- the family of Rose Cipollone, a lifetime cigarette smoker who died of lung cancer, had filed suit against Philip Morris and other tobacco companies, contending that they falsely represented the health risks of cigarettes. Philip Morris flew DeNoble and Mele to New York City to brief company executives on their research. According to Mele, however, when DeNoble explained that the rat experiment was a strong indication of the addictiveness of nicotine, one executive said, "Why should I risk a billion-dollar industry on a rat pressing...
Patricia M. King '59, Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library, died of lung cancer Tuesday...
Researchers looking for mutant strands of DNA in skin-cancer cells have discovered a gene that may be at the root of many -- if not most -- cancers, including such major types as lung, breast, brain, bone, bladder, kidney, ovary and lymphocyte. In healthy tissue, the gene acts as a brake on runaway cell division. Scientists hope that by replacing damaged genes with healthy ones, they may someday be able to prevent many types of cancer...