Nuclear power is not the answer
La Crosse Tribune - At least 450 former uranium miners have already died of lung cancer, five times the national average. And what about nuclear waste disposal? A typical nuclear reactor will generate 20 to 30 tons of high-level nuclear waste annually. Proponents of
Hospice: Easing the journey for the terminally ill
Toledo Blade - Eyink kept track of the late Otto Herman for nearly a year after she saw the Northwood man struggling in a Pharm store and talked with him about his battle with lung cancer. They talked every week, and when Mr. Herman’s doctor recommended hospice
Free Booklet Gives the Facts on Lung Cancer
Forbes - SUNDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) — People diagnosed with the number one cancer killer, lung cancer, now have a new resource for information from the National Lung Cancer Partnership. This month, the group debuted Living With a Diagnosis of Lung
Storyteller Simpson ponders life, death in latest collection
Gainesville Sun - In the short story “If I’m Spared,” a selfish foreign correspondent diagnosed with lung cancer vows to change his ways if he lives. In “Every Third Thought,” a woman describes with a mixture of dread and schadenfreude a cluster of cancer cases among
Rash means cancer drug Tarceva is working
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The development of a skin rash in patients with pancreatic cancer or lung cancer treated with Tarceva is a strong indication that the drug is working, report researchers from OSI Pharmaceuticals, the drug’s developer. Dr
New artistic director appointed at City Theatre
Miami Herald - Beverly Sills, the beloved American soprano who died earlier this month of lung cancer, will be remembered in a special tribute Aug. 7. The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Florida Grand Opera, WPBT-PBS Channel 2 and the American Lung
North Jersey Media Group
NorthJersey.com - Prudential Financial let John De Korte, a project manager from Wyckoff, start his shift an hour or two late so he could help his mother, whose lung cancer had spread. Her left hand was so affected it was locked tight, and her right thumb would lodge
Where there’s smoke
Boston Online - Every year during Mike O’Malley’s annual physical, as he was poked and prodded by his doctor, the two men would joust over O’Malley’s pack-a-day smoking habit. “Your father died of lung cancer,” the doctor would say. “You have to die of something,” O