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New data demonstrate that treatment with Afinitor Tablets in combination with Sandostatin LAR and Afinitor monotherapy may have the potential to control tumor growth in patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors .

The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- * Afinitor significantly reduced tumor size by 50% or more in one out of three patients with refractory or relapsed lymphoma * Phase III study underway to explore potential of Afinitor to ...

Blue crab season has always brought a smile to my face. It is a reason to get together with family or friends and enjoy one of the Chesapeake Bay's true culinary treasures.

The Joan Lauffer Breast Cancer Scholarship Fund, administered by the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County, will award up to $1,000 to a college-bound high school senior who has or had a parent with breast cancer.

Glivec * received approval from the European Commission to become the first and only treatment available in Europe to reduce the risk of recurrence in adult patients who are at significant risk of relapse following surgery to remove gastrointestinal stromal tumors .

DELMAR -- Johnnie Carroll Tyre, 61, of Delmar died Saturday, March 28, 2009, at Genesis Salisbury Rehabilitation & Nursing Center.

When he was running for SGA President, Jonathan Sachs was criticized for having an overly broad campaign platform.

A shopping center owned by the state's $26 billion pension fund is trying to force out small businesses that have been in the Parole development for decades, according to several merchants inside the complex.

Jesse Mandelkorn of Annapolis and Ashley Valentine of Friendship were named to the dean's list at Quinnipiac University for the fall 2008 semester.

There were 136 high school students at Camp Letts over President's Day weekend, working in small groups to come up with community service projects to take back to their communities.

County police arrested three Annapolis men suspected of damaging three vehicles with a baseball bat in the Annapolis area and Riva early yesterday morning.

BankAnnapolis reported a significant drop in profits in the fourth quarter of 2008, but still the locally owned bank stayed on the plus side.

Given my extensive coverage of Valentine's Day celebrations next week in this issue of Entertainment , After Dark will be a bit shorter this week.

EDITOR'S NOTE: We reserve this space for readers to publicly say thanks to Good Samaritans.

Main Category: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology ; Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 14 Jan 2009 - 0:00 PST Data released ...

Riva Trace Baptist Church in Davidsonville recently hosted 40 homeless men and women for the entire week of Christmas.

New data from two early clinical studies show that RAD001 may overcome resistance to Herceptin * in women with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

A Shady Side man was charged Sunday afternoon with burglary after police found him in the bathroom of an Eastport home.

The suggested survival benefit from the ITT analysis is important considering that approximately 25% of patients in the tamoxifen arm selectively crossed over to Femara therapy after the tamoxifen arm was ...

Seventeen people sitting in a darkened classroom exchanged a box of tissues when there were no words.