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Smoking seems to bring out the inner statistician in people. Sure, smokers know their habit can lead to lung cancer, but what are the odds it actually will? How does smoking a pack a day for 20 years compare in risk with smoking two packs daily for 40 years? And if you quit, how much do your odds improve? The results of a study published last week in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute offer smokers some help--at least with the math. The tricky part is knowing what to do with the answer...
When John Edwards succumbed to lung cancer two weeks ago at the age of 53, his acquaintances in the sleazy Thai beach resort of Pattaya remembered him fondly. "John Edwards was down to earth, genuine and loyal to his friends," says Ian Read, owner of Le Caf? Royale, a piano bar in a Pattaya strip known as Boyz Town where Edwards was well known...
DIED. FELICE LIPPERT, 73, co-founder and longtime vice president of Weight Watchers International, which now assists millions in shedding pounds in 30 countries; of lung cancer; in Manhasset, N.Y. In 1963, when she and her husband Al wanted to lose weight, they asked a local diet counselor, Jean Nidetch, to be host of a meeting with them and a few friends. Following Nidetch's system of incentives and points, which allowed a wide choice in foods, the pair lost 100 lbs. between them. The system became Weight Watchers, which they ran until the company was sold to Heinz...
Jesica Santillan's story had all the makings of the American miracle. There were the immigrants: Jesica--the shy 17year-old battling a congenitally enlarged heart and failing lungs--and her poor, devout parents, who three years ago paid a coyote to smuggle Jesica and themselves into the U.S., where they hoped to find help for the dying girl. There was the wealthy philanthropist Mack Mahoney, who read of Jesica's plight in a North Carolina paper and made it his mission to get her a heart-and-lung transplant to try to save her life. Finally, there...
Another question is ethical: How did Jesica get her last set of organs so quickly? There are about 200 very sick people waiting to get heart-and-lung combinations in the U.S., and Jesica seems to have leapfrogged the entire list. Carolina Donor Services says the organs were not directed to Jesica by the donor family. The likely answer is that the urgency of Jesica's need pushed her to the front of the line, which is accepted practice. Duke's error may have cost others as well: those waiting for just one of those organs...