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...attacks. More boomer selfishness? Maybe not. If science insists on getting more mileage out of the engine and prolonging our lives--thus allowing us to work into our 70s--what's wrong with maintaining the chrome and fenders? "We expect medicine to deliver that," says Susan Coleman, president of NCI Consulting, a New Jersey adviser to drug companies...
...most extensive prospecting efforts is the National Cancer Institute's, which is focusing on screening plants for compounds active against the AIDS virus and nine major types of cancer. Since 1986, the NCI has received samplings of thousands of different species from ethnobotanists as well as such institutions as the New York Botanical Garden, the Missouri Botanical Garden and the University of Illinois at Chicago...
...editorial in the NCI journal last week tried to put the drinking-water problem in perspective. It pointed out that at the highest levels of MX found in U.S. water supplies, the additional lifetime cancer risk was only 2 in 1 million. But it encouraged further investigation of the effects of MX and other chlorination by-products, and last week the National Institutes of Health announced that it was launching a two-year study. The NCI editorial also warned about the perils of abandoning drinking-water chlorination too hastily. It noted that when Peru did that in 1991, some...
...women in their 40s. That announcement seemed to bring the matter to a head. On Thursday, Klausner convened a press conference to announce that his organization was retracting its panel's vague January recommendation and replacing it with a far more definitive one. Women between 40 and 49, the NCI announced, should undergo mammography every one to two years. Women at high risk for the disease--those with a family history of breast cancer, say--should consult their doctors about beginning the tests even earlier and undergoing them even more frequently...
Such a bureaucratic beats-me did not go down well. Says radiologist David Dershaw of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City: "People were stunned by the NCI panel's action." Women's groups slammed it; NCI chief Richard Klausner admitted he was shocked by it; and the U.S. Senate, reading these hardly inscrutable tea leaves, voted 98 to 0 for a nonbinding resolution endorsing the value of regular mammography...