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SPOTLIGHT: NEJM issues correction over tobacco ties to cancer study

April 4, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Editors at the venerable New England Journal of Medicine must be a bit embarrassed this week, having had to issue a correction admitting that it should have disclosed that a lung-cancer detection... Read more...

Genetic link to smoking discovered

April 3, 2008 — 7:59am ET
As if quitting smoking wasn't difficult enough, now comes word that there's a genetic link that makes people more likely to be hooked on tobacco. The AP reports that three separate teams of... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Farrah Fawcett's cancer records illegally reviewed; Women's Hospital in TX to close; and much more...

April 3, 2008 — 7:59am ET
> Prior to Britney Spears's hospital files being illegally viewed by some members of UCLA's medical staff, Farrah Fawcett suffered the same fate. Records of her cancer treatments at the same... Read more...

Tobacco giants funding MA universities' research

March 31, 2008 — 7:59am ET
It's discomforting--the more you look, the more you find tobacco companies funding medical research. Last week, we learn that a 2006 study concluding that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be... Read more...

Cigarette company funded cancer study

March 26, 2008 — 7:59am ET
According to an article in the New York Times, a 2006 study that concluded that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented by the use of CT scans was backed by grants from a cigarette... Read more...