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Todd Ringler, a spokesperson for Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare, said that the first phase of testing will look only for toxic side effects. Endostatin's effectiveness will be noted, but it will only be studied directly if the drug proves non-toxic...
...guys who put those impenetrable safety caps on aspirin bottles and rounded off the corners of our furniture; they're the original authors of WARNING: CONTENTS HOT and THIS LADDER IS TO BE USED FOR CLIMBING. Without the CPSC, Americans wouldn't know the dangers of rickety swing sets, toxic crayons or detachable doll's eyes. Last week the CPSC announced that parents shouldn't allow infants to sleep with them in bed, owing to the risk of suffocation, strangulation or death by "overlying"--when a sleeping parent mistakenly rolls onto an infant. This announcement was based on data collected...
...when dumped. The EPA places a 30-day restriction on public access, but pathogens can survive much longer. And surrounding dumps with earth mounds won't keep out trespassers like Tony Behun, 11, who died after riding his bike through sludge in Osceola Mills, Pa. Nor will they keep toxic gases or wind-borne pathogens from reaching high-risk residents--infants, the elderly and the immune-system compromised. What is needed, says Cocalis, are warning signs about the human pathogens and community-risk assessments before sludge gets dumped. Ideally, he adds, all sludge should be processed until it is pathogen...
Whitesides added that those traditional treatments may not help in those cases where the cancer spreads beyond the treated, or treatable, areas. Traditional cancer therapies are also notoriously hard on the patient as both malignant and normal tissues are susceptible to toxic agents...
...driver for the New York Daily News; his mom was a schoolteacher (she now runs a day-care center). Rock was bused from his black neighborhood in Bed-Stuy to a white high school in Bensonhurst. He says the students there were "worse than white trash--they were white toxic waste," and would beat him up regularly. Funny thing was, even though he was a misfit in Bensonhurst, after a while he didn't fit in back in Bed-Stuy either. And nobody in either place took him seriously. It was then Rock first realized he was a comic...