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Cancer survivor from Keizer wins scholarship

A Keizer resident attending George Fox University recently received a scholarship from the American Cancer Society.

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Related Topix: Keizer, OR, George Fox University, Charitable Organizations, Health

Tue Jul 07, 2009

The StarPhoenix

Sask. woman lobbying for public funding of kidney cancer drug

Rae Kaytor is is lobbying for public funding of Torisel a ' an intravenous drug that extends survival for patients with advanced kidney cancer.

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Related Topix: Health, Oncology, Medicine, Canada

Charleston Daily Mail

Obamaa s Traveling Salvation Show

President Obama places his hands on Debby Smith, 53, of Appalachia, Va., to cure her of her kidney cancer.

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Related Topix: Appalachia, VA, Health Insurance, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Sun Jul 05, 2009

Free Republic

Emotion, few details, in Obama's health care pitch

President Barack Obama wanted to put a human face on his plans to overhaul health care, and a Virginia supporter did just that Wednesday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Appalachia, VA

Sat Jul 04, 2009

CareerJournal

Obama Makes Case for Health-Care Overhaul

ANNANDALE, Va. -- President Barack Obama promised an uninsured woman struggling with kidney cancer that his health-care plan would help her and millions of Americans as he pressed his case for fixing the nation's health system.

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Related Topix: Annandale, VA, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

Donation helps Gilda's Club get going in Lowell sooner than planned

A couple whose loved ones have struggled with cancer donated $25,000 to Gilda's Club, allowing the support organization to bring programs to Lowell five months sooner than expected.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Breast Cancer, Grand Rapids Metro

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Free Republic

Kidney cancer patients denied life-saving drugs by NHS rationing body NICE

Thousands of kidney cancer patients are likely to lose out on life-prolonging drugs.

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Related Topix: Health

Wed Jul 01, 2009

HON

Health Highlights: July 1, 2009

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Infants with HIV can die if they're given a standard tuberculosis vaccine, according to a three-year study conducted in South Africa.

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Related Topix: Colorectal Health, Colon Cancer, Health

Tue Jun 30, 2009

KAKE

Pfizer Discontinues Sutent Colon Cancer Study

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Pfizer is discontinuing a late-stage study of its cancer drug Sutent as an initial treatment for colon cancer because the drug is not proving effective enough.

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Related Topix: Colorectal Health, Colon Cancer, Health

Mon Jun 29, 2009

KVBC-TV Las Vegas

'Cowboys for Cancer' perform benefit concert

In an effort to raise funds for cancer survivors, a group of local country artists came together to perform a benefit concert.

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Related Topix: Health

Sat Jun 27, 2009

The Macon Telegraph

Robotic surgery taking hold at Macon hospitals

The morning after surgery, Oliver Ware sat next to the bed in his room at Coliseum Medical Centers, wearing a patient's gown and drainage bag on his hip.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Surgery, Macon Metro, Macon, GA, Science / Technology, Robots, Health, Urology

Wed Jun 24, 2009

WorldChanging

A Declaration of Health Data Rights

The United States has the most expensive and sophisticated health care system in the world, yet to many it appears broken.

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Related Topix: Health

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Herald-Mail

Two youths battling kidney cancer to meet at Relay

Caleb Hawbaker of Hancock and Asher Hopkins of Leitersburg have never met, but this weekend's Relay for Life of Washington County will bring the two together for the first time.

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Related Topix: Health, Hancock, MD, Leitersburg, MD, Washington County, MD, Social Software, Robinwood, MD

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Mayo Clinic

Prostate cancer brachytherapy: Can I pass radiation to others?

Dr. Erik Castle is a board-certified urologist who joined the Mayo Clinic staff in Arizona in 2007.

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Related Topix: Prostate Cancer, Health, Medicine, Urology, Tulane University, bladder cancer, Science / Technology, Robots

Sat Jun 20, 2009

RxPG News

Scientific evidence of health problems from past contamination of...

The committee also compared information from epidemiologic studies with that from toxicologic studies and found similar health effects in both humans and animals for kidney cancer.

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Related Topix: Health, North Carolina

Thu Jun 18, 2009

This is Somerset

'Remarkable drug has helped extend my life'

A terminally ill Frome man, who was given only a year to live, says an experimental drug has extended his life by more than three years.

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Related Topix: Cancer, Medicine, Health

GlobeNewswire

EDAP Highlights HIFU Focal Therapy for Treatment of Prostate Cancer

EDAP TMS SA , the global leader in therapeutic ultrasound, announced today that its High Intensity Focused Ultrasound technology was showcased at the 2nd Annual International Workshop on Focal Therapy and Imaging in Prostate Kidney Cancer.

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Related Topix: Edap TMS Sa, Medical Equipment, Prostate Cancer, Health, Medicine, Urology

Wed Jun 17, 2009

PR-inside.com

PrognosDx Health Granted Rights to UCLA's Epigenetics Platform Technology

PrognosDx Health, Inc. announced the receipt of an exclusive, worldwide license to the patent rights associated with The University of California, Los Angeles technology discovered by Dr.

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Related Topix: UC Los Angeles, Prostate Cancer, Health

Mon Jun 15, 2009

Daily Herald-Tribune

LIFESTYLE: Teacher uses own cancer story in class

Teacher Chriss Koch, a cancer survivor, from St. Clement s Catholic school stands in front of a fundraising thermometer for Relay for Life, which shows her students success - " they raised $6,000. Paloma Migone Chriss Koch was an athletic, young, first year GPRC student who considered herself healthy and active.

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Related Topix: Health, North America, Canada, World News

Sat Jun 13, 2009

The Clarion-Ledger

Songwriter tribute a salute to the spirit

Not the same old song. That's what Linda Watts was after when she started a series of songwriter nights in Jackson in the late 1980s.

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Related Topix: Jackson, MS, Health

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