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...That success has drawn international admirers. Parlaying the benefits of innovation and research clusters into cleaning up inner city areas is "smart economically, and sustainably, since densely built cities use less energy and generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions," says Bruce Katz, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Washington-based Brookings Institution. "The revival of older industrial cities in Europe has much to teach their counterparts...
Indeed, several earlier studies had hinted that vitamins may protect against prostate cancer (as well as other cancers), but the data were conflicting. In a trial involving 29,000 Finnish subjects in which researchers tested whether vitamin E could reduce lung cancer in smokers, those taking the supplements did not enjoy a lower rate of lung cancer but did develop 34% fewer cases of prostate cancer compared to controls. In the same study, subjects taking supplements that contained a form of selenium also showed a 63% lower risk of developing prostate cancer. But a separate trial of 7,000 heart...
Given the large size of these new studies, however, some experts doubt that future research will controvert them. "If the focus is preventing prostate cancer, then there is nothing you can go to the health-food store and get in a bottle," says Dr. Patrick Walsh, a leading prostate-cancer specialist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "Men are fooling themselves if they think that...
...Crimson contacted three of the four scientists who won grants from the Gates Foundation (the work of the fourth, Harvard Medical School professor George M. Church, has been profiled in the past) to learn about their “unconventional” research...
...While research regarding photodynamic therapies has focused on cancer in the past, Hasaan said that she is now interested in using the therapy to treat infections...