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...vehicle, researchers have successfully ferried healthy genes into the diseased nose cells of three people suffering from cystic fibrosis. Once they had infiltrated, the healthy genes restored missing cell functions and reversed the abnormality that causes the disease. The next step is to apply this technique to diseased lung cells. Cystic fibrosis is the country's most common fatal inherited disease...
...executive director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Banzhaf, a longtime foe of the tobacco industry and mastermind of the child-protection strategy, got a major boost in January, when an Environmental Protection Agency report concluded that secondhand smoke causes 3,000 American adults to die of lung cancer each year. The study also blamed proximity to smoking for hundreds of thousands of cases of childhood respiratory illnesses, such as bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma...
...commission's recommendations come after a study released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this past January 1993 which designated second-hand smoke as a Group A carcinogen, placing it among the most serious of all cancer-causing agents, and the cause of 3,000 lung cancer deaths in non-smokers per year...
Prostate cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer in men, according to the American Cancer Society, and is second only to lung cancer in death rate...
...Women who smoke appear to be twice as likely to get lung cancer as their male counterparts, according to a new report. The reason is a mystery...