Tobacco giant Philip Morris International has just bought the rights to a new technology for delivering nicotine in a aerosol spray. The upside: Nicotine addicts get their fix without all the toxins associated with smoking. The downside: It'll be at least three years before it hits the market.
Pfizer's cancer drug crizotinib was able to shrink tumors of non-small-cell lung cancer patients whose tumors carried a specific genetic mutation that fuses two genes. The early-stage study results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Eat your meat and vegetables: Higher levels of B vitamins are associated with at least 50% lower lung cancer risk, even in current or former smokers, as well as those who've never smoked, concludes a study of nearly 400,000 participants.
