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September 1998

Miracles of Saint Judah

When it comes to reporting on cancer "breakthroughs," journalists fall back on the same old myths.

By Stephen S. Hall

One of the more amusing aspects of the recent flurry of stories about two promising new cancer treatments is the way researcher Judah Folkman, the son of a rabbi, has been hailed as a secular saint-even though all his miracles, as he's the first to admit, have taken place in mice.

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