Science & Medicine
In the latest indictment of hormone replacement therapy, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have found that women taking an estrogen-progestin combination have an increased risk of ovarian cancer.
Oct. 4, 2003
Winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine, E. Donnall Thomas pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients.
Oct. 23, 2012
E. Donnall Thomas dies at 92; physician won a Nobel Prize
Women who take the drug tamoxifen after having cancer removed from one breast may run a higher risk of developing a relatively more dangerous form of cancer in the other breast, according to a new study.
July 4, 2001
Simply asking to be seated in nonsmoking sections appears to help parents who smoke reduce the chances that their children will follow in their footsteps.
April 12, 2004
Cancer patients who got morphine at the touch of a button to relieve pain stopped using the drug sooner, and used little more than half the narcotic than patients who got a continuous infusion, a researcher says.
July 24, 1988
Researchers make progress on early detection of ovarian cancer
Dec. 30, 2009
Booster Shots
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Nov. 6, 2008
A defect in a familial breast cancer gene discovered in 1994 also appears to cause a significant share of sporadic, non-familial breast cancer cases in young women, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Jan. 18, 1996
Sports
One of this week’s two Nobel Prize winners for physiology or medicine, Linda B.
Oct. 7, 2004