By LISA PRIEST, Toronto Globe and Mail

Can a cancer patient be cured for 42 cents a day? That's what researchers will find out in a massive study featuring a half-century-old drug, more than 3,000 breast-cancer patients and an oncologist who kept pushing when no brand-name drug company was interested.

Nursing mothers who take codeine could be turning their breast milk into a troubling brew.Nearly one-quarter of babies whose moms took the drug while breastfeeding showed signs of central nervous system depression, according to a new study.