At the same time, he understands what a curator does. Minutes star secretly tapes interviewee. A five-year study by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute finds that early symptoms of lung diseases such as emphysema and bronchitis disappear when smokers kick the habit, no matter how many years they have smoked. Cigarette smoking by adults has reached its lowest lowest level since 1942, says a government study. Many women with early-stage breast cancers that have not yet metastasized can safely forgo mastectomies, according to new information released by the National Cancer Institute.
Patients can rely instead on lumpectomies and radiation treatment to prevent recurrences.
The negative effects of having more than one alcoholic drink per day may wipe out any benefits to the heart, says a new report. The 11-year study showed that any decreased risk of men dying from heart disease was offset by an increase in deaths from cancer. An FDA advisory committee has refused to approve the highly touted drug etidronate as the first nonhormonal treatment for osteoporosis, because many patients did not seem to benefit significantly from its use. That, in essence, is the issue being decided in state supreme court in New York thanks to a libel suit filed against Prodigy, one of the Big Three online services. A Long Island financial firm claims it was unfairly accused of fraud on a Prodigy bulletin board.