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...Will they have enough money to live on? "Parents don't often want to share this with their kids," says Katie Sloan, a director at AARP, "but if they're going to live until they're 95 years old, you need to ask the question." Particularly if, like many elderly, they will need some kind of assisted care...
...quite a few activists are lobbying to make colonoscopy the test of choice. They point to small studies of people with a genetic predisposition to colon cancer that show that snipping out polyps on a regular basis decreases chances of developing the disease. Dr. Sidney Winawer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City is directing a larger study to see if that holds true for the general population...
...scientists will be struggling to find safer, more effective ways of introducing corrective bits of dna into the human body. But cutting-edge medical research is never risk-free. "The bottom line is that we are embarking on a new age of therapy," says Dr. Yuman Fong of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. "There will be untoward side effects, and people may die from these therapies...
...book, McLennan, one of the inspirations for Rev. Scott Sloan of the Doonesbury comic strip by Garry Trudeau, aims to help people discover religion by leading them through six stages of spiritual development...
Cancer specialists, for their part, haven't neglected the issue. "Despite what this ABC show may have reported, there's no clear scientific evidence to date that cell phones are linked to brain cancer," says Dr. Lisa DeAngelis, a neuro-oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City--a view, she adds, that will be reaffirmed in an upcoming study by her colleagues...