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  • Prosecutors won't charge cyclist Lance Armstrong

    Prosecutors won't charge cyclist Lance Armstrong
    Lance Armstrong is used to winning, but his most recent victory was unlike any he had experienced before.

  • LI advocates 'thrilled' by Komen reversal

    LI advocates 'thrilled' by Komen reversal
    Life's Victories: Surviving breast cancer Planned Parenthood officials and women's health advocates on Long Island cheered the news that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation had reversed its decision and would continue to fund the organization's breast cancer screening."I'm thrilled for the women on Long Island who are going to continue ...

  • Bright future remains for PHS

    Bright future remains for PHS
    Shortly after 8 a.m., I received the news that Prattville head coach and athletic director Jamey DuBose had told his football squad at a meeting in the Physical Education Building that he would leave the Lion nation and accept a position at Florence High School.

  • Jobs data lifts Dow to highest mark since '08

    Jobs data lifts Dow to highest mark since '08
    It's not often you can take a true story based on a young man who gets cancer before slowly... NEW YORK - A drop in the unemployment rate to its lowest level in three years propelled the Dow Jones industrial average Friday to its highest close since May 2008, before the financial meltdown later that year.

  • Not so pretty in pink

    Not so pretty in pink
    THIS WEEK, with exquisitely poor timing, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer foundation sent me a fundraising letter, complete with those personalized mailing labels charities often include as a thank-you. They were pretty with their pink ribbons, but I tossed them aside, furious that Komen had just announced it was cutting all funding ... (more)
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  • A Silver Bullet To Beat Cancer?

    A Silver Bullet To Beat Cancer?
    The internet is awash with stories of how silver can be used to treat cancer. Now, lab tests have shown that it is as effective as the leading chemotherapy drug - and may have fewer side-effects.

  • Sanford-Burnham Researchers Find Molecular Switch That Allows Melanoma To Resist Therapy

    Sanford-Burnham Researchers Find Molecular Switch That Allows Melanoma To Resist Therapy
    LA JOLLA, Calif. -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates that as many as one in 51 men and women will be diagnosed with melanoma-the deadliest form of skin cancer-at some point during their lifetimes.

  • Scripps Research Scientists Demonstrate Effective New 'biopsy In A Blood Test' To Detect Cancer

    Scripps Research Scientists Demonstrate Effective New 'biopsy In A Blood Test' To Detect Cancer
    LA JOLLA, CA - Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Health, and collaborating cancer physicians have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of an advanced blood test for detecting and analyzing circulating tumor cells (CTCs)-breakaway cells from patients' solid tumors-from cancer patients. The findings, reported in five new papers, show that the highly sensitive blood analysis provides information that may soon be comparable to that from some types of surgical biopsies.

  • New Technology Allows Scientists To Watch Cancer Cells In Action At Unprecedented Resolution

    New Technology Allows Scientists To Watch Cancer Cells In Action At Unprecedented Resolution
    A photograph of a polar bear in captivity, no matter how sharp the resolution, can never reveal as much about behavior as footage of that polar bear in its natural habitat. The behavior of cells and molecules can prove even more elusive. Limitations in biomedical imaging technologies have hampered attempts to understand cellular and molecular behavior, with biologists trying to envision dynamic processes through static snapshots.

  • Protein Structures Give Disease Clues

    Protein Structures Give Disease Clues
    Using some of the most powerful nuclear magnetic resonance equipment available, researchers at the University of California, Davis, are making discoveries about the shape and structure of biological molecules -- potentially leading to new ways to treat or prevent diseases such as breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease.