Radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive procedure, is effective for treating lung cancer in patients not candidates for surgery, says a study led by Damian Dupuy, director of Rhode Island Hospital and professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20070328-053312-9854r

Additional coverage of new researching suggesting that women with cancer in one breast should get an MRI scan of the other breast to make sure the cancer is not there, too. Constantine Gatsonis, director of the Center for Statistical Sciences at Brown, was the lead statistician for the trial.
www.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/070328/28health.mri.htm
See news release: www.brown.edu/news/2006-07/06-120.html

Brown University makes the top 10 on a list of ‘dream schools’ in an annual Princeton Review Inc. survey of parents and students.
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a00xg.dB1eQI&refer=us

Rachel Morello-Frosch, an assistant professor of community health and environmental studies at Brown, comments in this article on the 20th anniversary of a landmark study showing a link between hazardous-waste sites and minority neighborhoods.
www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/45247.html

A review of three exhibitions currently on display at Brown which document the history of African slavery and its impact on the Western Hemisphere. The exhibits contain many of the original documents, journals, cargo invoices, newspaper advertisements and engravings cited in the Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.
www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2831643920070329
See news release: www.brown.edu/news/2006-07/06-108.html

On the occasion of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to Russia this week, Watson Senior Fellow Sergei Khrushchev commented on Reuters TV on the evolving nature of the two countries’ relationship, saying it will fall short of a full alliance.
www.watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=591

A profile of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel.
www.innewsweekly.com/innews/?class_code=Ar&article_code=3688