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...hazardous," including some carcinogens. So if the FDA treats cigarettes as a drug, then the agency's duty under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act is clear. The fda must make sure that drugs are "safe" -- something certainly not true of cigarettes, which have been linked to everything from lung cancer to premature menopause. The FDA would have two choices: ignore the law or ban cigarettes...
Assistant Professor of Medicine Elliot Israel and Francis Professor of Medicine Jeffrey M. Drazen demonstrated that a drug called zileuton was effective in improving lung function after an asthma attack as well as reducing asthma symptoms over a month-long period...
...Smoking cigarettes not only raises the risk of lung cancer and heart disease but also causes damaging bone loss in women. A new study, based on 41 pairs of female twins, has found that women who smoke a pack a day through adulthood reach menopause with bones that are up to 10% less dense than those of nonsmokers -- and more vulnerable to fractures. Researchers speculate that smoking interferes with the body's estrogen production...
Keyomarsi also conducted research on other cancers such as lung, pancreas, colon, stomach, kidney, prostate, ovary and uterus...
Many other vectors are now being tested. Dr. Ronald Crystal of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center was jogging one day when he had the inspired notion of delivering genes to the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients using the adenovirus that causes the common cold. "This is a virus that has taken millions of years to evolve to do what it does -- get into the lung," says Crystal, who plans to begin a new set of trials with the virus in the next month or so. One of his challenges is to render the adenovirus harmless and keep it from...