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NC starts Web site to guide smoke-free transition

North Carolina has launched a Web site to help the state's bars, restaurants and hotels to kick the smoking habit for good.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Lung Cancer, Surfside Beach, SC, Business News

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Examiner.com

Health benefits of chocolate

Great news for chocolate lovers, eating a small, 1.6-ounce bar of dark chocolate every day is good for you.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Chocolate, San Francisco Metro

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Science Daily

Computational Method Points To New Uses, Unexpected Side Effects Of Already Existing Drugs

The researchers developed a computational method that compares how similar the structures of all known drugs are to the naturally occurring binding partners -- known as ligands -- of disease targets within the cell.

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Related Topix: Drugs, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, California, Drug Testing

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Newswise

Kidney Function Decline Increases Risk of Heart Failure and Premature ...

Declining kidney function is linked to a higher risk of heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease, and early death in individuals with or without kidney disease, according to a pair of studies appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology .

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Related Topix: California

Market Wire

Stem Cell Therapy International, Inc. and Histostem Korea Announce...

OTCBB : SCII ) and its soon to be subsidiary, Histostem Ltd. of South Korea , announced that they recently supplied hematopoietic stem cells to The Queen Mary Hospital of the University of Hong Kong, China, for treatment of Leukemia patients.

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Related Topix: Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Leukemia, Health

East Bay Business Times

Roadblocks gone, Mission Bay becomes part of San Francisco

Mission Bay Drive, the short, stubby road connecting Seventh and Berry streets across the Caltrain tracks, opened on Oct.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, SoMa (San Francisco, CA), Potrero Hill (San Francisco, CA), San Francisco Metro

Wed Nov 04, 2009

San Jose Mercury News

UCSF scientists track swine flu virus for tiny changes that would cause big problems

As the H1N1 flu virus spreads at breakneck speed, a team of local scientists are close behind.

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro, San Jose Metro, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Science / Technology

EurekAlert!

A 'spoonful of sugar' makes the worms' life span go down

If worms are any indication, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dieting, Medicine, Diabetes, Health, Insulin (generic), Humulin, Novolin, Medication, San Francisco Metro

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Newswise

Study Points to New Uses, Unexpected Side Effects of Already-existing Drugs

Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs.

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Related Topix: Drugs, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, California, Drug Testing

StarNewsOnline.com

Quandary With Mammograms: Get a Screening, or Just Skip It?

A tumor detected by molecular breast imaging, right, was not found in a mammogram.

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Related Topix: Opinion

Mon Nov 02, 2009

WUSA9

Chronic-Stress Reliever For Women Is Often High-Fat Food

Many people say they eat more when they are under stress. Others eat less. But people under chronic stress are more likely than others to say they eat fattening foods and feel that their eating is out of control, according to a study presented at a recent meeting of the Obesity Society.

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Philippine News

Best friends midnight ride turns deadly

Two families, a university, and the law enforcement community are mourning the loss of a decorated campus police officer, the best friend of the campus public safety dispatcher who barely survived an early morning accident after ending his swing shift.

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro, Boulevard, CA

Sun Nov 01, 2009

The Western Edition - Community Newsp...

Safway Foundation's year-round season of sharing

The fall harvest, Thanksgiving and the holiday season are often the perfect time for a grocer to generate awareness of the hunger that faces many in our communities.

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Related Topix: Retail, Safeway, Grocery, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Medicine, Cancer, Health, San Francisco Metro

Sat Oct 31, 2009

KGO

UC get $15.7M cancer research grant

The University of California at Berkeley will be at the forefront of a new national effort to have physical scientists and engineers join the war on cancer thanks to a $15.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, UC Berkeley, Physics, Science, Oncology

Fri Oct 30, 2009

RedOrbit

Geneticists Hunt For Scleroderma Triggers

At its most benign, the autoimmune disease scleroderma can discolor parts of the skin of its sufferers.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

UC Berkeley NewsCenter

New $16 million center to push, pinch and probe cancer cells & tissues

The National Cancer Institute has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, $15.7 million over five years to allow physical scientists and engineers to open a new front in the war on cancer.

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Related Topix: UC Berkeley, Chemistry, Science, Physics

Wed Oct 28, 2009

News-Medical.Net

Princeton University scientists and researchers team up to explore cancer evolution

Princeton University physical scientists will partner with researchers at four other institutions to explore the driving forces behind the evolution of cancer under a five-year, $15.2 million award from the National Cancer Institute.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Princeton University, Oncology, San Francisco Metro, UC Santa Cruz

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Circulation

Attenuation of Brain Response to Vascular Endothelial Growth...

From the Center for Cerebrovascular Research , Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care and the Departments of Neurological Surgery and Neurology , University of California, San Francisco, Calif.

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Related Topix: Neurological Surgery, Medicine, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Metro

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Drugs.com

Data Presented On Oncophage Cancer Vaccine In Recurrent Glioma At Sno 2009

Antigenics today announced that the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco , has presented an update on a Phase 2 clinical trial of Oncophage for recurrent high grade glioma at the 2009 Joint Meeting of SNO and AANS/CNS Section on Tumors 2009 in New Orleans, LA.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Biotech, Antigenics, Healthcare Industry, Brain Cancer, Oncology, Kidney Cancer

Mass High Tech

Antigenics Inc.

Drug developer Antigenics Inc. said researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, reported positive results stemming from a study using its cancer therapy Oncophage to treat brain-cancer patients.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Antigenics, Healthcare Industry, Health, Brain Cancer

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