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Monday, September 13, 2010
A remarkable lineup of actors, musicians, athletes and journalists participated in the Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) primetime roadblock television fundraising event on Friday, September 10, 2010.
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Thom Canalichio on 09/13 at 08:57 AM
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Thursday, September 09, 2010
Supplement your asthma action plan with Vitamin D and you may experience improved asthma control according to an article this month in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. Vitamin D deficiency is more common with obesity, in African American ethnicity and westernization of countries reflecting a higher-risk population for asthma.
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Thom Canalichio on 09/09 at 03:16 PM
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Scientists want to provide the users of prosthetic limbs the ability to feel what they are touching or experience the comforting perception of holding hands.
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Thom Canalichio on 09/08 at 03:38 PM
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
A pilot study suggests the hallucinogen psilocybin may be feasible and safe to administer to patients with advanced-stage cancer and anxiety, with promising effects on mood, according to a report published online today that will appear in the January 2011 print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Thom Canalichio on 09/07 at 02:12 PM
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
Four key studies now propose a new theory about how cancer cells grow and survive, allowing researchers to design better diagnostics and therapies to target high-risk cancer patients. These studies were conducted by a large team of researchers at Thomas Jefferson University’s Kimmel Cancer Center. *VIDEO*
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Craig Jones on 09/02 at 09:46 AM
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
A new study from the University of Haifa has found an additional link between Light At Night (LAN) and cancer. The researchers say their study results show that suppression of melatonin due to exposure to LAN is linked to the worrying rise in the number of cancer patients.
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Craig Jones on 09/02 at 08:45 AM
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
People with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes appear to be at an increased risk of developing plaques in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research published in the August 25, 2010, issue of Neurology.
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Craig Jones on 08/26 at 09:44 AM
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Malignant gliomas are the most common subtype of primary brain tumor – and one of the deadliest. But researchers have discovered a certain mutation that may expose a weakness to target for treatment.
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Thom Canalichio on 08/17 at 02:43 PM
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Monday, August 02, 2010
Cancer patient Mary Cipolla turned 100 years old on Friday, July 30, more than 10 years after she had was diagnosed and underwent a dangerous and extensive surgery known as the Whipple procedure.
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Thom Canalichio on 08/02 at 09:44 AM
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Friday, July 30, 2010
Studies support the case for dropping mouth-to-mouth and using “hands-only” chest compressions during CPR for cardiac arrest.
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Thom Canalichio on 07/30 at 02:51 PM
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