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  • August 2007

    • Cancer Cures Hiding in Poisonous Lake

      Wired  |  Aug 28, 07 6:47 PM CDT

      Cancer Cures Hiding in Poisonous Lake

      (Newser) - Two scientists may be fishing cancer cures out of an abandoned, poisonous lake, Wired reports. Don and Andrea Stierle are finding microbes in the green goup of an old Montana pit lake that don’t exist anywhere else – and happen to make compounds that inhibit a lung cancer and an ovarian cancer. So far Big Pharma hasn’t taken enough notice to fund a full investigation of the underwater slime.  More »

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    • Painter Elizabeth Murray Dies

      New York Times  |  Aug 13, 07 8:59 AM CDT

      Painter Elizabeth Murray Dies

      (Newser) - Elizabeth Murray, a painter whose vivid, cartoon-based work was part of a contemporary movement away from minimalism, died yesterday of lung cancer. She was 66. A leading figure in the New York art scene, Murray won a MacArthur genius grant in 1999 and enjoyed a retrospective at MoMA last year. More »

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      obituary  • art  • death  • lung cancer  • artist  • MacArthur genius  • MoMA  • painter  • Museum of Modern Art

    • Tommy Makem Dies at 74

      Boston Globe  |  Aug 3, 07 4:19 AM CDT

      Tommy Makem Dies at 74

      (Newser) - Tommy Makem, the great Irish singer and storyteller who, with the Clancy Brothers, led the revival in Irish folk music in the late 1950s and 1960s, died after a long battle with lung cancer yesterday. He was 74. "To hear Tommy Makem sing 'Four Green Fields,' " writes Boston Globe columnist  Kevin Cullen, "was to hear Enrico Caruso sing 'Vesti la giubba,' or James Brown sing 'I Feel Good.' " revival of More »

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      music  • obituary  • cancer  • musician  • Ireland  • lung cancer  • folk

  • July 2007
  • March 2007

    • Lung Scans Fail To Cut Deaths

      Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 7, 07 7:52 AM CST

      Lung Scans Fail To Cut Deaths

      (Newser) - CT scans, once hailed as a breakthrough in early detection of lung cancer, fail to save lives, according to research published yesterday. In a study of 3,246 smokers or former smokers, the scans led to the discovery of more tumors—and more surgeries—than in a control group, but patients died at the same rate. More »

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      health  • cancer  • technology  • lung cancer  • CT scans

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