Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 30, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Winnipeg free september discovery should help determine which women Are prone to breast cancer researchers expect to find killer Gene soon by Robert Cooke new Day perhaps maybe a researcher somewhere in the world will announce the discovery of a Gene responsible for an inherited form of breast the discovery should provide a better Way to predict which women Are at High risk for breast and ovarian should help with tumor diagnosis and May Lead eventually to better when it the announcement will probably be the result of a rare and Power Ful combination of Competition and cooperation within a worldwide research consortium the International breast cancer linkage while competing Vig the members of 14 research groups Are also exchanging data and sharing ideas with the goal of conquering breast can its a very funny combination of cooperation and geneticist Mary Claire King its obviously very com yet people Are very open about what they at the University of Ber two years ago tracked the elusive Gene to the Long Arm of chromosome she and the other researchers think that the when predisposes some women to breast and ovarian they suspect its responsible for five to is per cent of breast cancer and a smaller number of ovarian in King speculates it plays some role in the no inherited cases of breast and ovarian by everyone moves faster so the Gene will be found its a consortium of most of the groups in the world working on the genetics of breast said biologist Bruce from the human cancer genetics research group in it is open to researchers willing to Pool results from their studies of cancer prone it will probably be whoever finds added who said the Gene seems to sit within a Cluster of other genes that Are involved in breast we dont have the Gene but we Are very she in contrast to this breast cancer scientists who pursued other important Dis ease genes including several cancer re lated and the Gene for cystic fibrosis were extraordinarily guard ing their data until they could get into but the race for the breast cancer Gene is markedly different because of the co opera i dont know Why its happening this but in delighted that breast cancer re searchers Are King doctors declare War on milk committee warns parents times news service the physicians committee on responsible whose interests include both preventive Medicine and alternatives to Ani Mal has declared War on that great american the committee said in a statement released in Boston should be alerted to the potential risks to their Chil Dren from cows milk it added milk should not be required or recommended in government but while Many paediatric experts say that cows milk should not be Given to they strongly disagree with some of the committees the major problem with their said Ronald Klein chairman of the american Academy of paediatrics committee on is that they Are unnecessarily frightening parents who worry that they will do harm if they continue to allow their Chil Dren to have Dairy there is no perfect but milk is a major source of a number of important the committee asserted yester Day that milk is an unhealthful food because it has too much Spock says theres evidence accumulating against produces Iron deficiency in in causes diabetes in children with the genetic predisposition to the and is responsible for allergies and digestive prob the presence of Benjamin Spock on the panel at the news conference appeared to lend weight to the committees contentions and but in a Telephone interview yester Spock made it Clear that he agreed Only that breastfeeding is the preferred method of infant feeding and that whole milk from cows should not be Given to infants under a year old because of the risk of i wont dont drink said the 89yearold through his baby and child has helped millions of Amer ican parents raise their there is evidence accumulating that it is not Good for infants the physicians based in has 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the bottles flip off plastic that 12yearold Mary a seventh grader at Schaumburg Addams Junior High took two extra strength tylenol capsules for a head a Short time she became violently ill and died in her Home in Elk Grove she was the first of seven to the other victims also had taken tylenol that three were members of the same the killings were never but one James now once a prime remains in he was convicted of plotting to extort million from the maker of tylenol after the he is serving two consecutive 10year terms at the medium Security Federal prison in Al his mandatory release Date is March an out work accountant with an explosive was arrested after he sent a letter to Johnson the Parent of tylenol Mcneal demanding million to Stop the he had been living in Chicago but moved to new York shortly before the in a phone interview last an Art instructor in reiterated his claim that he is innocent of the murders and the but he said he is no longer taking Legal Steps to Clear in All the killer bought a bottle of extra strength took it poured out the medication and refilled the capsules with potassium he then made the rounds of food stores and slipping several capsules out of tylenol bottles and replacing them with poisoned that is How Many investigators saw the killers modes All the tampered packages were up front on the shelves where a customer could reach them As soon As the police linked the deaths with the tampered tylenol Johnson Johnson sprang into recalling and destroying 31 million tylenol capsules at a Cost of More than that move and others by the including setting up a hotline and launching a Public education Are still cited As a textbook example of How a consumer products company should handle a Public relations no firm link Between aids like symptoms associated press world health organization said yesterday it found no firm evidence that a new virus is the cause of aids like symptoms in a Small number of but it urged further the announcement followed a who sponsored meeting of leading experts on acquired immune deficiency syndrome who reviewed re ports on fewer than 100 people who showed signs of the illness without having the his most of the which involved severe damage to Peoples immune could be linked to known diseases like drug tuberculosis or genetic Michael head of the in Agency aids told a news there is no evidence of a new i like he said after the today meeting of 22 the cases do not have a common Merson during a july International con Ference in several Doc tors reported on the seemingly mysterious who asked 39 laboratories throughout the world to report similar cases for a who statement said nothing suggests there is a new i like virus or any other source of infection that could be transmitted by blood or Flower City receivership clearance Sale All inventory 70 off or better notice 885 King Edward has been closed to allow for the Complete writ Down of All and is reopening wednesday 30 at for a limited period of time so that All 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