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Is There Really a Cancer Cluster in the Acreage?
Dr. Melissa Singer isn’t so sure. She’s a pediatric oncologist, the one who prescribes the chemo and radiation to kids burdened with diseases that no one should ever have – medulloblastomas,...
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Cancer Clusters in Ohio, Delaware, Missouri Offer Clues, Concerns
As Acreage residents worry and wait to find out whether their community’s health woes qualify as a true cancer cluster, it’s worth looking at other cancer clusters around the nation. UPDATE 8/02: Read...
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The Acreage Cancer Cluster Meeting: What State and Local Officials Said
Reacting to a past OnCall column, “Is There Really a Cancer Cluster in the Acreage?” Commenter “Acreage Resident” expressed frustration that our coverage of the community meeting last Thursday...
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Weed killer in your water? Atrazine, Roundup research raises concerns
When we drink a glass of water from the faucet, we assume it’s safe. But a story in this weekend’s New York Times raises unsettling questions about the effect of herbicides. Particularly if you are...
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What the Acreage cancer study said
The results from the Acreage cancer study arrived in our in box at 4:30 on Friday night. Why wait until the end of the week? Hard to say. The results suggest there’s something that merits further...
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What is radium-226? For starters, it has a half-life of 1,600 years.
News that a well in the Seminole Improvement District’s water treatment plant exceeded radium-226 drinking water levels made us curious. Some naturally occurring radioactive materials decay rapidly,...
View ArticleHealth Reform: Public option mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the Senate?
Will a government-run health option make it back into the Baucus health reform bill? A riveting debate is underway in the Senate Finance Committee, where Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY and Sen. Jay...
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Avoiding ‘false hopelessness’ on the cancer journey
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lwiQm5QaTs&w=640&h=390][youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lwiQm5QaTs&w=640&h=390] Everyone’s body makes cancer cells, says author and...
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Fat, but not happy. A look at obesity in Florida and the nation.
Obesity rates in 1985 Remember 1985, when you were skinny? We all were. A series of maps on the CDC web site show what’s been happening to us between 1985 and 2008. It’s not pretty. Start with the...
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Statistician organization sounds the alert about cancer clusters in...
Science and Public Policy, an open-access, online public-policy journal published by the American Statistical Association (ASA) has published a report finding higher-than-expected rates of pediatric...
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