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...last week, CaP CURE, with the help of a star-studded scientific advisory board, had awarded $22 million in grants to hundreds of researchers in the U.S. and abroad--making it the world's largest private source of funding for prostate-cancer research, second only to the NCI. Yet researchers complain that much more financing is needed. A CaP CURE brochure points out that while the number of deaths from prostate cancer is about the same as for aids and breast cancer, the Federal Government provides $1.3 billion for aids research and $313 million for breast cancer but only...
...good, it may actually increase the risk of those diseases among people who smoke or work with asbestos. The National Cancer Institute, which sponsored two newly concluded studies reaching that result, found the findings so important that it called a press conference today to make the news public. NCI said a study involving smokers was halted 21 months early because the damage was so marked. "The message here is, basically, eat your fruits and vegetables," says TIME's Christine Gorman. "You can't get around it." Gorman points out that because laboratory tests had shown that beta carotene slowed...
...this warfare [between Pepcid and Tagamet] is to shore up the battlements before Zantac," says Susan Coleman, managing partner of NCI Consulting in Princeton, New Jersey. When Zantac 75 wins approval for over-the-counter sales in the U.S., she predicts, "World War III starts." She notes that while other over-the-counter acid blockers had been on the British market for a year before Zantac 75 appeared in January, it took only three months to overwhelm the competition. "Zantac on the market will be a significant competitor," says Robert Kniffin, vice president of Johnson & Johnson's external communications...
...published in tomorrow's issue of the Journal of The American Medical Association and conducted by a team at the University of California at San Francisco, backs up the National Cancer Institute, which last year stopped recommending that women in their 40s get regular mammograms. "At the time the NCI changed its policy, people said it was a penny-pinching approach to preventive care," saysTIME Health Care reporter Janice Castro. "Now the organization is vindicated." But today, neither the American Medical Association nor the American Cancer Society said they would change their longstanding policies, which say that women in that...
...gingerly, all too aware of its explosive potential. Many reporters emphasized the uncertainties inherent in the abortion study -- and in most other scientific research. The paper asserted that having an abortion raised a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer 50% on average. But, as an editorial in the NCI Journal points out, that is just about the smallest risk such a study can detect. (By contrast, a heavy smoker faces a 3000% jump in the odds of developing lung cancer.) Nonetheless, antiabortion groups suspected that the media's caution reflected a pro-choice bias. "Even if you want...