Dana Reeve, a singer-actress, who devoted a significant portion of her life to care for her husband Christopher Reeve -the Superman -succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 44. She announced in August that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer. She was not a smoker.
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During the past few months, many regions in Alaska have been reporting a marked increase in Whooping Cough / Pertussis cases this year. Alaska has had fourfold increase in pertussis cases in 2005 compared with 2004.
Findings of a recent research initiative led by the medical researchers at St. Louis University, MO published in the New England Journal of Medicine show that immunization with a new vaccine could potentially prevent millions of Pertussis (whooping cough) -a bacterial infectious disease -annually in adolescents and adults population.