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... WNYC - News - WTC Recovery Worker Dies of Cancer March 17, 2006 NEWS MUSIC ARTS Shows Schedule Support WNYC Make an E-Pledge Membership Levels Producers' Circle Other Ways to Give Corporate Support Events Cultural Arts Partners Sound Affects STAR initiative Free Stuff 2 for 1 Tickets About People @ WNYC Press Room History Jobs/EEO Contact WNYC Quicklinks Shows A-Z All Things Considered Brian Lehrer Evening Music Fishko Files Fresh Air Leonard Lopate Morning Edition New Sounds On The Media Radio Lab Selected Shorts Soundcheck Spinning on Air Studio 360 spacer Reading Room Music Playlists News WTC Recovery Worker Dies of Cancer WNYC Newsroom NEW YORK, NY March 17, 2006 —A paramedic who worked at the World Trade Center site in the months after the September 11th attacks has died of cancer.Deborah Reeve, who was 40 was told in late-2003 that she had mesothelioma an asbestos-related form of cancer.

Reeve may be recognized under a new law meant to provide increased benefits to responders who became ill working at the World Trade Center site.

The president of the union that represents emergency medical technicians and paramedics says a medical board had approved Reeve's benefits under the new law and a final determination will be made in April.

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Published in the January 15, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that women and African-Americans were least likely to enroll in treatment trials for lung cancer, and identifies a need to improve educational and outreach efforts to make clinical trials available to a wider range of patients.While clinical trials are important because they test the efficacy of the next generation of potentially life-saving treatment...

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MITCHELL HECHT Knight Ridder Newspapers Q: Can you please explain why trans fats are so dangerous?

_T.C., Santa Rosa, Calif.

A: Trans fats are a synthetically-made fat that's at least as bad for you as saturated fats like beef lard or butter.

They're created by a process that changes liquid polyunsaturated fats like safflower, corn or cottonseed oil into fats that are a solid at room temperature.

Trans fats are doubly bad because they not only raise your bad "LDL" blood cholesterol level, they lower your blood level of good "HDL" cholesterol level too.

As of January 2006, the FDA now requires all labeled foods to list the amount of trans fats in their product.

A number of foods have been reformulated to eliminate any trans fats.

An example of this...