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WSWS : News & Analysis : Medicine and Health
 
Cancer Treatment and Research

     

9 January 2007
Medical research and big business: The case of Sir Richard Doll

21 December 2006
US breast cancer decrease tied to drop in hormone replacement therapy use

5 September 2005
Research reveals link between tiny genetic structures and cancer

20 June 2005
Nanotechnology and the treatment of cancer

12 August 2003
International governments hold back stem cell research

26 April 2003
WHO report: alarming increase in cancer rates

31 October 2002
Alarming breast cancer rates in northern California county

11 July 2002
Do cellular phones represent a health risk?

1 May 2002
Australian court ruling against Big Tobacco

McCabe v. British American Tobacco Australia Services Ltd: A protracted conspiracy exposed

30 April 2002
Australian Prime Minister backs down on stem cell research

2 October 2001
Australian cancer patients denied radiation therapy

25 August 2001
An exchange: How should socialists approach the issue of stem cell research?

14 August 2001
Bush's stem cell decision: an attack on medical science and democratic rights

7 August 2001
The new Know-Nothings: US House votes to outlaw therapeutic cloning

6 August 2001
A significant technical advance
First self-contained mechanical heart implanted in the US

27 July 2001
Bush, the Pope and stem cell research

19 July 2001
A "modest proposal" from tobacco giant Philip Morris

12 May 2001
Australian jury finds passive smoking causes cancer in landmark legal case

31 March 2001
New report suggests link between power lines and risk of childhood leukemia

13 January 2001
Bush preparing to axe vital medical research into stem cells

22 August 2000
Scientists achieve cellular transformation of bone marrow stem cells into nerve cells

10 April 2000
Wall Street and the commercial exploitation of the human genome

13 March 2000
Gene therapy trials shut down at University of Pennsylvania following patient death

3 March 2000
Promising new insights into early cancer growth

18 January 2000
Report predicts four in every ten Britons will develop cancer

13 May 1999
Cancer and social life:
Review of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, by Sandra Steingraber

28 April 1999
Genes that kill malignant skin cancer cells

4 December 1998
Scientists isolate elusive embryonic stem cells

11 July 1998
Cancer patient in Sofia reports on:
Health care crisis in Bulgaria

28 May 1998
A promising breakthrough in cancer research

26 May 1998
A new type of breast cancer drug

 

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13 May 1999
Cancer and social life:
Review of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, by Sandra Steingraber

 

 

 

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