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Alfred P. Sloan Jr., who shaped the General Motors Corporation into one of the world’s largest manufacturing enterprises, died of a heart attack yesterday afternoon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center here. He was 90 years old. www.canadaone.org physical education canada via: (New York Times) Read Full Story

It’s a tough job market, but if you’ve won a Nobel Prize and run the NIH, we may have a gig for you. Harold Varmus, the guy with the intimidating CV who has run Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for the past decade, has asked Sloan-Kettering’s board to start looking for his successor . “I came here with the intention of doing this job for about 10 years, and 10 years have passed,” Varmus told the Health Blog this afternoon. “It’s not retirement; it’s not disease.” Varmus is going to keep running a lab and teaching, among other things . He also may be on ... Read Full Story

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Important news for men with prostate cancer: first, the cancer tends to grow so slowly that only a fraction of patients actually die from it. Second, men with low-grade cancer who opt for close monitoring instead of surgery to remove the prostate do not seem to suffer anxiety and distress from living with ''untreated'' cancer. Those are the take-home messages of two studies appearing in medical journals this week. Prostate cancer, the second most common cancer in men after lung cancer, is increasingly being diagnosed at earlier stages, mainly because of more widespread screening programs. While many prostate tumors ... Read Full Story

Women who carry mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have a dramatically increased risk of developing breast cancer: a 36 to 85 percent chance of developing the disease during their lifetime, which is three to five times greater than the average risk rate. Ken Offit, chief of the clinical genetics service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York, wants to know how the other 15 to 64 percent escape unscathed. Genetic microarrays that allow scientists to quickly screen the genomes of thousands of patients are finally bringing that question within reach. In a new study, scientists around the globe are collecting DNA ... Read Full Story

The Tao of Dana email me what you want to know about "feng-shui-ing" and i will move things around with you (and I'll post your questions, too!)--- danaclaudat@yahoo.com xx Dana Mobile Archive RSS Random Parsons Design School teamed up with Sloan Kettering Hospital to design models for a new cancer treatment center. ABUNDANT WOOD is the 100% wrong element to surround cancer patients. It represents growth, and with so much wood, aggressive growth, which is the opposite of the point of this center where you are fighting to prevent growth. Though I am not a doctor, this is a point of traditional chinese medicine/ ... Read Full Story