Thursday, February 16, 2006 • Vol 12, Issue 4

Drs. Andrea LaCroix (left), Ross Prentice, Garnet Anderson and Shirley Beresford, all of the Center's Public Health Sciences Division, co-authored three landmark Women's Health Initiative papers on the impact of a low-fat diet on the risk of breast and colorectal cancers and heart disease. Photo by Dean Forbes

• News on the low-fat front
  WHI study of postmenopausal women indicates a low-fat diet may reduce breast-cancer risk, but shows little impact on colon cancer or heart disease
  
  
• Harnessing cancer's inner enemy
  UW, Center collaborative study on innate immunity to ovarian-cancer protein paves way for new immune-based therapies for the disease
  
  

• Learn the 'Secret of Photo 51' tomorrow
  
  
• Preparations for pandemic flu
  
  
• Hutch Award raises $300,000
  
  
• Biostatisticians M. Elizabeth Halloran and Ira Longini join PHS Division
  
  
• Puget Sound Partners for Global Health announces availability of funds for pilot projects
  
  
• Holcomb wins AACR-WICR Brigid Leventhal scholarship award
  
  
• Get your 2006 HutchPass online
  
  
• PeopleSoft upgrade launches March 13
  
  
• Next human-subjects research training is March 13 in Pelton
  
  
• Want to play basketball?
  
  
• Healthy Challenge events
  
  

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