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...terminally ill patients (there have been 70 assisted suicides in four years), 22 states have passed laws to encourage aggressive treatment of intractable pain. "Knowing I could choose when and how to die has given me peace," says Barbara Oskamp, 70, a Portland retiree who suffers from a brain tumor. "I don't think Ashcroft understands how bad pain can be." The debate is far from over. A federal judge has blocked Ashcroft's order until Nov. 20. A lengthy court battle is then likely over whether the DEA can go after physicians' licenses under the federal Controlled Substances...
...human body. From this work came the drug Herceptin, the first treatment to aim at the cells that cause breast cancer. Ullrich's approach is not to target the cancer cell itself but to block the mechanism that attracts blood vessels from healthy tissue to feed a tumor...
...Forward Spin: With gene chips and bioinformatics, it will be possible over the next five to 10 years for pathologists to analyze a malignant tumor and identify the exact cocktail of drugs needed to control its spread...
...same way that, in 1954, cigarette companies formed the Tobacco Industry Research Committee to scrutinize the effects of cigarettes, so now are wireless companies commissioning similar studies on cell phones. Just as a hacking cough is today the sign of a misspent, rebellious youth, so will that tell-tale tumor behind your neck a half-century from now be the sign of a college career spent huddled outside the brick-and-ivy, talking loudly into your cell phone to be heard over the din of everyone else doing the same...
...Indian woman said to be the recipient of Mother Teresa's first miracle--a significant step toward Teresa's canonization. Monica Besra, a mother of five, tells TIME that on Sept. 5, 1998--a year to the day after Teresa died--she was writhing in pain from an abdominal tumor at a home run by the Missionaries of Charity. "There was no way any doctor would have operated on me at that hour," she says. "So the nuns just started praying and kept a Mother Teresa medallion on my stomach. The pain subsided, and the tumor vanished." Episcopal Bishop Salvatore...