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...first inhaled insulin for diabetics in the U.S. and would be a welcome option for Type 2 patients who may need insulin boosts before meals. One issue that the FDA will be watching carefully is how the insulin powder affects the lungs and whether it causes breathing problems, tumor growth or fibrosis. So far, studies show that after a few years of treatment patients exhibited slightly decreased lung function on certain breathing tests, although they did not report any shortness of breath...
...called whole-body scans were originally used as a last-resort diagnostic tool to find hidden tumors in patients with cancer. But then the tests caught on among the healthy hypervigilant, who were drawn in growing numbers to walk-in clinics by aggressive TV and radio ads. In 2002, two years after Oprah Winfrey got scanned--and bubbled enthusiastically about the experience--32 million Americans shelled out as much as $1,000 apiece to get their bodies X-rayed in thin slices and reassembled into 3-D images detailed enough to show every blemish, scar and incipient tumor. The numbers...
...lead author of the study, the risks associated with just one scan are relatively modest, likely to increase your chances of dying from a radiation-caused cancer to about 0.08%. But if you were to get scanned every year for 30 years, your risk of developing a radiation-related tumor would jump significantly, to about...
DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who adeptly steered the proceedings in former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; of a brain tumor; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February owing to grave health, after two years of regular courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...
Goldhirsh says she decided to start the contest this past spring to bridge religious gaps, funding it with money she inherited from her father, who died last summer from a brain tumor...