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Facing Yale's Megan MacMahon, the number one player in the Eastern region during the fall season, Vigna--a three-time All-Ivy selection--rallied to capture the next 12 consecutive games to win the match...
...again shortened the list of food items safe to eat. In early January, Dr. Paul Oglesby '38, dean of admissions at the Med School, published the results of a 23-year study linking highcholesterol food with the incidence of fatal heart disease. A couple of months later, Dr. Brian MacMahon, chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, published the results of a seven-year study which found that coffee drinkers are more than twice as likely as non-drinkers to contract cancer of the pancreas...
Epidemiologist Brian MacMahon and his team stumbled upon the association while studying the effects of smoking and alcohol in 369 patients with pancreatic cancer who had been admitted to eleven New England hospitals between 1974 and 1979. The patients were questioned in detail about their use of tobacco and alcohol and incidentally about their drinking of tea and coffee. Their answers were then compared with those obtained from a control group of 644 patients hospitalized for different forms of cancer and for some nonmalignant diseases as well...
...researchers acknowledge that more information is needed before a firm conclusion can be drawn. "I don't think it's time to put on the missionary role yet," says Dr. MacMahon, who used to be a three-cup-a-day man. "But I will tell you that I myself have stopped drinking coffee...
...pancreas, according to a School of Public Health (SPH) study released this week. The risk of cancer for coffee drinkers is 2.6 times greater than for non-drinkers in men, and 2.3 times greater in women, the seven-year-long study found. Under the direction of Dr. Brian MacMahon, chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at the SPH, researchers questioned patients in 11 Boston-area hospitals--369 with cancer of the pancreas and 644 control patients--on their use of tobacco, alcohol, tea and coffee...