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Elizabeth Cooney is a health reporter for the Worcester Telegram &
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« Hospitals, pharma outrank insurers and HMOs in service survey | Main | Today's Globe: Fernald, herbicides, diabetes drug warnings, heart-failure drug » Tuesday, August 14, 2007This week in JAMAThree studies by Boston authors appear in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association. A study from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that a diet high in meat, fat, sweets and refined grains may be associated with a higher risk of colon cancer recurrence and death in people who had surgery and chemotherapy to treat stage III colon cancer. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital report that people with diabetes have an increased risk of death in the first month and first year after they have a heart attack or unstable angina compared with people who have these acute coronary syndromes but do not have diabetes. Posted by Elizabeth Cooney at 07:27 PM
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