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• Sprint Wireless Solution Allows Nevada Cancer Institute to Access Real-time Information Like Never Before

  
  Desinformado.com — Authority: 439
  Nevada Cancer Institute (NVCI) has selected Sprint as its wireless communications provider of choice at its new, state-of-the-art facility near Las Vegas. This is the first Sprint in-building coverage and capacity agreement involving a large healthcare institution in the Las Vegas market. The Sprint solution will ...
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• Working in the Funeral Industry Causes Cancer-yourfuneralguy

  
  YourFuneralGuy — Authority: 130
  Close up of cancer Cell The National Cancer Institute(NCI)has issued a report on the Funeral Industry and Cancer. Those who are exposed to Formaldehyde continually in the business show high risk for brain cancer. The report appeared  in the Oxford Journal. A summary of the article can be viewed here. Those in ...
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• New cancer target for non-Hodgkins lymphoma

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  NEW YORK (Nov. 22 2009) -- Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism that may prove to be a powerful target for the treatment of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects lymphocytes, or white blood cells.
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• Does XMRV Use Cholesterol to Survive in the Body Like HIV-AIDS? What XMRV Infected Twins May Teach us about the Virus.

  
  The Addi and Cassi Fund - Niemann Pick Type C — Authority: 104
  You know the old saying, “trust your instincts?”  When you get a “gut feeling” about something, pay attention to it.  Ever since Addi and Cassi first became ill with a flu like virus in 2005, my motherly instincts kicked into overdrive.After months of being sick, I was told by Stanford doctors that Addi and ...
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• Funeral industry workers at greater leukemia risk

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Washington, November 21 (ANI): Funeral industry workers are at a greater risk of getting leukemia because they are exposed to formaldehyde for long durations, a new study has claimed. Formaldehyde is used for embalming in the funeral industry but researchers suggest the exposure to it can be dangerous.Researchers at ...
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• Promoting healthy skepticism in the news: Helping journalists get it right

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  An editorial published online November 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute discusses the exaggerated fears and hopes that often appear in news coverage of cancer research. The editorial provides guidance for both the media and journals to help alleviate the problem.
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• PI3K Pathway: A Potential Ovarian Cancer Therapeutic Target?

  
  Libby's H*O*P*E* — Authority: 112
  …[T]here are several PI3K signaling pathway targeting drugs in clinical development for use against ovarian cancer and solid tumors, including GDC-0941, BEZ235, SF1126, XL-147, XL-765, BGT226, and PX-866.  The results of two recent medical studies suggest that the use of PI3K-targeted therapies may offer an ...
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• Highlighting racial disparities increases coverage and effectiveness of health news

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Effective communication of health news is needed to raise awareness and encourage behavior changes in populations who experience health disparities, or inequalities in health status, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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• Mammograms: Additional 565 Women Screened To Save 1 Life--Harmful?

  
  BASIL & SPICE--HEALTHCARE ISSUES! — Authority: 119
  Davis Liu M.D.-- When the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated their recommendations and were against routine mammography for women aged 40 to 49, it certainly got a lot of attention. These guidelines are far different than those advocated by the American Cancer Society (ACS) which recommends ...
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• Common pain relief medication may encourage cancer growth

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of cancer cells.
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• NanoString Forges Closer Ties With Broad Institute to See What Genetic Tool Can Really Do

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  Biotech , Genetics , Instruments Luke Timmerman wrote: NanoString Technologies , the maker of a machine that lets scientists digitally analyze how genes are turned on or off in a tissue sample, just won a glowing endorsement from one of the biggest names in biology— Eric Lander of the Broad ...
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• Family caregivers, simple touch methods can cut cancer patients’ suffering

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Washington, November 18 (ANI): Family caregivers can markedly cut down suffering in cancer patients at home with the use of simple touch and massage methods, a new study has suggested.The study examined outcomes of a 78 minute DVD instructional program, titled “Touch, Caring and Cancer: Simple Instruction for Family ...
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• Kill the cancer, not the patient: New toxicity testing approach ...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  (Jackson Laboratory) With a new two-year, $1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, Jackson Laboratory Professor Gary Churchill is launching a radical new approach to testing three chemotherapeutic drugs for potential toxic effects, using an outbred mouse population that approximates the genetic diversity ...
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• Drugs that Prevent Cancer are Being Ignored

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 554
  This is Gina Kolata in The New York Times : A large and rigorous study found that a generic drug, finasteride, costing about $2 a day, could prevent as many as 50,000 cases [of prostate cancer] each year. Another study found that finasteride’s close cousin, dutasteride, about $3.50 a day, has the same effect. ...
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• Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen diagnosed with cancer

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Man who set up software giant wi read more
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• Smokers more vulnerable to bladder cancer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  Washington, Nov 17 (IANS) Smokers face a five times higher risk of developing bladder cancer compared to non-smokers, according to a new study.Researchers found that among individuals who smoked the same total number of cigarettes over their lifetime, smoking fewer cigarettes per day for more years may be more harmful ...
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• (NIGERIA) Physician Selected for International Leadership Program

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 126
  SAN DIEGO – Dr. Folaju Olusegun Oyebola, of NIGERIA has been selected as one of twenty-two palliative care physician leaders to participate in the first cohort of the new International Palliative Care Leadership Development Initiative (LDI). Dr. Oyebola will be receiving mentoring and opportunities to enhance ...
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• International Physicians Selected for Leadership Program

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 126
  (SAN DIEGO) – Across the globe from Africa to Asia to Eastern Europe to Latin America, twenty-two emerging palliative care physician leaders have been selected to participate in the first cohort of the new International Palliative Care Leadership Development Initiative (LDI). Led by The Institute for Palliative ...
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• Can Diet Coke Kill You? Part 2

  
  Green Options — Authority: 148
  Due to the great popularity of “ Can Diet Coke Kill You? ” combined with a lot of controversy over it, I have decided to write this follow-up post. Most of the controversy over the last article was around the fact that the documentary I referenced sited data from the National Cancer Institite (NCI) but that ...
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• U of M researchers find 2 units of umbilical cord blood reduce risk of leukemia recurrence

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (November 11, 2009) -- A new study from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota shows that patients who have acute leukemia and are transplanted with two units of umbilical cord blood (UCB) have significantly reduced risk of the disease returning.
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