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1 hr ago | The Wichita Eagle

More advanced therapies are being aimed at cancer

In this April 19, 2007 file photo, a lab officer cuts a DNA fragment under UV light from an agarose gel for DNA sequencing as part of research to determine genetic mutation in a blood cancer patient, in Singapore, which prides itself as an advanced medical treatment and research hub.

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Related Topix: Genetics, Medicine

5 hrs ago | KOCO-TV Oklahoma City

Venezuela's Chavez appears energetic on TV

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, dogged by widespread speculation about his health, appeared chipper and energetic in a television appearance over the weekend.

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Related Topix: Hugo Chavez, Cancer, Medicine

6 hrs ago | The Times Leader

GOP plays offense in medical device tax fight

For Republicans, it's an irresistible trifecta: A bill that gives them an election-season chance to say they're fighting to protect jobs and cut taxes, even as it erodes financing for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul they despise.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Representative Erik Paulsen, Senator Al Franken, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat

Sun Jun 03, 2012

WETM-TV Elmira

Dawson dies at age 79

The star passed away at Los Angeles' Ronald Reagan Memorial hospital on Saturday night from complications of esophageal cancer.

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Related Topix: Esophageal Cancer, Entertainment

Your News Now

Your Health: New tool in the fight against high blood pressure

One out of every three adults in America suffers from the malady and if left untreated, it can be a ticking time bomb, leading to heart disease, stroke or kidney failure.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Hypertension

WTMA-AM North Charleston

Allergies Linked to Higher Cancer Risk, Study Says

Can allergies increase your risk of cancer? A new study out of University of Washington Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center suggests this may be the case.

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Related Topix: Allergy, Asthma, Texas

KVOR-AM Colorado Springs

Experimental Drug T-DM1 Clinical Trials Encouraging Against Aggressive Breast Cancer

For Bridget Spence, graduation from college was a short-lived joy. Just one week after receiving her degree, a medical diagnosis sent her reeling.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Breast Cancer, DanaFarber Cancer Institute, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Oncology

KTVI

New Drugs May Help Immune System Fight Cancer

Patients battling certain lung, skin and kidney cancers may benefit from a new type of cancer treatment that harnesses and boosts a patient's immune system to shrink tumors, if early research pans out.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Oncology, Skin Cancer, Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Kidney Cancer

The Capital-Journal

Wagle files for re-election, also battling cancer

State Sen. Susan Wagle said she is running for re-election and announced she is undergoing chemotherapy for a strain of cancer different than the one she has battled since 1996.

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Related Topix: Kansas, Lymphoma

Sat Jun 02, 2012

The Republic

Study: 'Smart bomb' drug attacks breast cancer

CHICAGO - Doctors have successfully dropped the first "smart bomb" on breast cancer , using a drug to deliver a toxic payload to tumor cells while leaving health y ones alone.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Breast Cancer, Duke University, Oncology

WSFA-TV Montgomery

Study: 'Smart bomb' drug attacks breast cancer

Doctors have successfully dropped the first "smart bomb" on breast cancer, using a drug to deliver a toxic payload to tumor cells while leaving healthy ones alone.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Breast Cancer, Duke University, Oncology

WGAL-TV Lancaster

Pregnant smokers' kids may get asthma

One of the first questions a mom-to-be is asked by her doctor is "Do you smoke?" And while pregnant woman don't smoke in nearly the numbers they did decades ago, some still do.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Family, Kids, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UC San Francisco, Autos

WISW-AM Columbia

Diabetic Alert Dog Saves 3-Year-Old Girl's Life Countless Times

YORK) -- A 3-year-old girl in Texas who suffers from a rare form of infant diabetes wouldn't be alive today if she didn't have a diabetic alert dog, her mother says.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Diabetes

WISW-AM Columbia

Leukemia Survival: The Younger You Are, the Better Your Chances

In the 1950s -- a heady time for scientific and medical advances -- the color television was introduced to the American public and Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine.

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Related Topix: Leukemia, Oncology, Medicine

WBNS

Study: Hormone pill slows prostate cancer's growth

A hormone-blocking pill approved last year for some men with advanced prostate cancer now also seems to help a wider group of men who were given it sooner in the course of treating their disease.

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Related Topix: Prostate Cancer

WJCW-AM Gray

Is Chagas the New AIDS? Experts Disagree

Chagas disease, a parasitic infection spread to humans by insects, is not the new HIV/AIDS of the Americas, according to infectious disease experts who called the comparison "unrealistic" and "unfortunate." Responding to an editorial posted Monday in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and the media attention that followed, Rick Tarleton, president of ... (more)

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Entomology, Science, Infectious Diseases, Medicine, University of Georgia

Fri Jun 01, 2012

Belleville News Democrat

Correction: Choosing-Nursing-Homes story

In a story May 23 about choosing nursing homes, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires patients get a minimum amount of daily attention from a nurse and nurses aides.

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Related Topix: Medicaid, Medicare

The State

MU medical dean to leave amid billing fraud probe

The University of Missouri's medical school dean is stepping down amid a federal investigation into potential Medicare billing fraud by two radiology professors.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Missouri, University of Missouri, Medicare, Radiology, Medicine

Army Times

Court rules against veteran in colonoscopy case

Years after thousands of veterans learned they may have been exposed to infections at government-run hospitals, many are still mired in legal battles seeking compensation from the Veterans Affairs Department.

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Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs, Hepatitis, Medicine, US News, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Murfreesboro, TN

WLEX-TV Lexington

Global Cancer Cases Could Rise 75% By 2030

Global cancer cases are projected to rise 75 percent by 2030, in part because many other diseases are being stamped out and more developing countries are adopting Western lifestyles linked to cancer, international cancer experts reported.

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Related Topix: Cancer, Smoking, Malaria, Lung Cancer

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