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...research. That promise was underscored by several papers presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) last week, including one out of UCLA Medical School that showed that Celebrex, used in combination with newer cancer drugs, was successful in treating patients with late-stage lung cancer. In 9 out of 15 patients whose prior treatments had failed, the Celebrex cocktail either stopped the disease from progressing or shrank their tumors. In cancer circles, that is an impressive result...
Summer may be best for surgeries. Why? High levels of vitamin D (from food, supplements or sunshine) can improve recovery times. Summer lung-cancer patients had four times the survival rate of those with winter surgeries and low vitamin...
...more than four years ago, AIDS has baffled the experts. UCLA's Gottlieb was among the first physicians in the country to notice that something strange was going on in the winter of 1981. In the space of just three months, he treated four patients with an unusual lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. PCP is what doctors term an "opportunistic infection," one that strikes people when their immune response is weakened. Typical victims are frail cancer patients and transplant recipients. Gottlieb's four patients departed strikingly from this pattern. Though tests showed their immune systems were severely depressed...
...Sing (Chow), a loser punk who is desperate to be an Axe man. But destiny has another, redemptive scenario in store. This accident-prone scoundrel has the makings of a natural-born kung fu genius--just the fellow to do battle against that legendary killer the Beast (Leung Siu-lung...
DIED. Joseph C. ("Mickey") Shaughnessy, 64, comic actor whose instantly identifiable mug betokened deftly played stereotypes, usually a sailor, a thug or an Irishman, in 40 movies, including From Here to Eternity (1953), Jailhouse Rock and Don 't Go Near the Water (both 1957); of lung cancer; in Cape May Court House...