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...ketogenic diets, including Rieger, expects it to deliver anything close to a universal treatment for cancer. And none of them wants to create exaggerated hopes for a miracle cure in seriously ill patients, who may never benefit from the approach. But the recent findings are difficult to ignore. Robert Weinberg, a biology professor at MIT's Whitehead Institute who discovered the first human oncogene, has long been critical of therapeutic approaches based on the Warburg effect, and has certainly dismissed it as a primary cause of cancer. Nevertheless, he conceded, in an email, for tumors that have been affected...
...important issues, especially the war in Iraq" [April 10]. Give me a break. To anyone not living in some type of bizarre world alongside George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, it is apparent that what is going on in Iraq is a murderous disaster. Kenneth R. Weinberg New York City...
...Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, it is apparent that what is going on in Iraq is a murderous disaster. The only leader who has taken a courageous stand on the war is Representative John Murtha, who has called for bringing all the troops home from Iraq. Kenneth R. Weinberg New York City Klein's column about the presidential ambitions of Frist, Clinton and McCain brought to mind a quip attributed to Gore Vidal: "Any American who is prepared to run for President should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." David R. Thiessen Woodstock, Illinois, U.S. Gorby...
KENNETH R. WEINBERG New York City...
...clever new drugs like Gleevec and Herceptin that take better aim at cancerous cells. But those therapies treat all cancer cells as equals. The next generation of treatments, doctors say, needs to recognize and target the root cause of tumors. "It requires a reorientation in people's thinking," says Weinberg. "We need to focus on wiping out the stem cells rather than eradicating the bulk of the tumor...