Chest health - A final blessing

A final blessing
St. Petersburg Times - Barry Bradley at his home in January. The inevitability of death provides him, and us, with insight into life. Of the thousands of stories I've written during my career, this is certainly the most difficult because I will have to dig deep to write it

Genentech to Charge $100K a Year for Cancer Drug
Smart Money - NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Genentech Inc. (DNA) plans to charge about $100,000 a year for its Avastin drug in the treatment of lung and breast cancer, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The drug is already widely used for colon cancer, but the higher

Total Smoking Ban is the only way to protect employees
RxPG - The United Kingdom should follow the lead of countries such as Bhutan, Cuba, Ireland, Italy, Malta, New Zealand, and Norway in legislating for a total ban on smoking in public places. By BMJ, Newly released documents reveal that, despite knowing that

Lasting cough, breathlessness could indicate lung cancer
RxPG - The disease usually begins at a younger age among people with a genetic disposition, according to Koehler. By IANS, The symptoms of lung cancer frequently go unrecognised in the early stages of the disease, experts say. Lung cancer typically makes

Study: Cutting fat didn't reduce cancer, heart risks
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - Judy LaCour, 66, drinks some water with her meal. LaCour participated in a women's health initiative study on low-fat lifestyles and their effect on cancer and heart disease. She joined the study more than 10 years ago and was assigned to the low-fat

Colo. Landowners Win $554M in Nuclear Suit
KFMB - Two companies that ran the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant exposed neighbors to plutonium through their negligence, endangering people's health and contaminating their property, a federal jury concluded. The jury recommended Dow Chemical Co. and

Major Health Milestone: Number of US Cancer Deaths Drops
Daily News Central - For the first time since the government began keeping national death statistics in 1930, the number of cancer deaths in the United States has fallen as improvements in diagnosis, therapy and prevention have finally overtaken increases caused by aging

'Kite Runner' chosen as One Book for 2006
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - The Allegheny County Library Association has selected "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini as the book for its fourth One Book, One Community program. The novel, published in 2003, is a coming-of-age story set the 1960s and 1970s in Afghanistan. The

Westlund to run for governor as ind
News-Review - SALEM, Ore. (AP) State Sen. Ben Westlund said Tuesday he s bolting the Republican Party and entering the 2006 race for governor as an independent because the two-party system prevents solutions to the state s serious problems. Westlund is

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University of Washington - Physical therapy students in "Kinesiology II" try to guess how old Brodie Pratt is by his movements while he plays with his grandmother. Vitamin A analog is a potential lung cancer preventative The compound, called bexarotene, doesn't cause the