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Filed under: News, Weird, Mantastic, Health Now that Susan Boyle has gone to rehab, we’ve been looking for a new hero. Jon Matthews, who is terminally ill with...
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The Delhi Daredevils may be into the semi finals of the IPL 2 in South Africa but one man in the team is unhappy. And it is perhaps an outcome of it that the coach...
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In the 1960s, during the military dictatorship, Dilma Rousseff, 61, participated in the armed struggle against the dictatorship, operating in clandestine and terrorist...
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A study conducted by Andrea Baccarelli, an assistant professor of applied biotechnology at the university of Milan, concluded that inhalation of certain particulates...
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Jimmy “V” Valvano, Kay Yow and now, Chuck Daly have become martyrs in a losing fight.
All three, basketball legends lost their precious lives to cancer. ...
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The love story star Ryan O’ Neal spoke for the first time on how his relationship with wife Farrah Fawcett has become more intense since she is suffering with...
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CHICAGO _ An experimental treatment added four months to the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer, doctors reported Tuesday in a study that tested an entirely new...
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A drug already sold for other prostate problems significantly cut the chances of prostate cancer being found in men with an increased risk of the disease, doctors...
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An influential doctors group is backing off its call for annual tests after age 50 to screen for prostate cancer.
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Former UCLA and UAB basketball coach Gene Bartow has been diagnosed with stomach cancer.
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Don Hewitt, the legendary mastermind of CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” is battling pancreatic cancer.
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Two big prostate cancer studies were intended to settle the question of whether screening for the disease really does save lives. Now the long-awaited results are in _...
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Don Imus says he’s battling stage two prostate cancer.
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Pfizer Inc. said Thursday it ended a successful trial of its cancer drug Sutent early after data showed the drug met its goal of slowing the progression of pancreatic...
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A former Biopure Corp. executive has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for pretending he had terminal cancer to dodge a lawsuit by federal securities...
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A former executive of Biopure Corp. is expected to plead guilty to an obstruction of justice charge for pretending he had terminal cancer to dodge a federal lawsuit...
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Doctors screening women for ovarian cancer were able to pick up the disease about two years earlier than normal, according to a British study published Wednesday.
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As many as two of every five men whose prostate cancer was caught through a PSA screening test have tumors too slow-growing to ever be a threat, says a new study that...
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Former Detroit Pistons coach Chuck Daly has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina has been diagnosed with breast cancer, a top aide said Tuesday.
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In the headline of an Oct. 29 story about the FDA’s approval of a new leukemia drug, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the company and the disease. The...
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A second-line drug to treat a life-threatening form of leukemia has won federal approval, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday.Tasigna, known generically as...
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Maple Leafs forward Jason Blake has a rare form of leukemia that he said leaves him in no immediate danger and is highly treatable. The 34-year-old left wing has...
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Maple Leafs forward Jason Blake has a rare form of leukemia that he said leaves him in no immediate danger and is highly treatable.The 34-year-old left wing has started...
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Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered the first inherited gene mutation that increases the risk for chronic lymphocytic...
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Now you will be watching airline, mobile phone and media mogul Richard Branson in the role of a social activist; not in reel life but in real life. Yes, you read it...
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A mother who catches influenza, pneumonia, or a sexually transmitted disease around the time of pregnancy is susceptible of having a child that will develop leukemia....
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A new study that came up on Wednesday states that Swiss drug maker Novartis AG’s cancer-fighting drug Gleevec can help treating chronic myeloid leukemia ever...
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Cancer patients who go for bone marrow transplants are at higher risk of developing another form of cancer. This conclusion has peeped out from a new Canadian study...
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Sometimes it becomes quite difficult to detect leukemia. Actually, leukemia is a kind of cancer that finds its roots in blood and sprouts out due to excess of abnormal...
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Children who suffer from leukemia and brain tumor in their childhood have higher chances of stroke risk, according to a new study. This study further divulges that...
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Must say the zest to live and the drive to excel cannot stop one from winning. We hope equally good is the fate of this 11 year old leukemia patient who is out n a...
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If you are a philanthropist and haven’t donated blood yet, I think, it’s high time you do it; apparently not for your ownself, but for the mankind.
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Childhood leukemia has increased five-fold since the early 1900s! And the scientists are blaming pesticides or chemicals in the environment as the main culprits behind...
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Dr Thomas Force, who teaches medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, has revealed that the cancer-fighting drug, Gleevec...
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Prof. Kim Sung-hoon at Seoul National University’s College of Pharmacy is on the way to find a new drug for lung cancer. He is developing the drug that will cause...
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Tasigna, a new drug for leukemia, made by Novartis AG is a new hope for the patients with uncaring form of leukemia. The new drug has helped more than ninety per cent...
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A drug has reported to reduce a common form of leukemia to a chronic illness. It is dealt with just a single pill. A new study has showed that the drug...
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DKMS Executive Vice President Katharine Harf, left, and model Cindy Crawford attend the DKMS Linked Against Leukemia Gala at Capitale on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in New York.
