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Heavy Metal Rocker treated for Cancer in Houston
KIAHHe's been called the "Grand Wizard of Classic Rock" and a heavy metal icon, but for the past few months 67-year-old Ronnie James Dio has been known as a cancer patient. "Why come to Houston? It's the best hospital, " Dio said as he got ready for a...Tags: Health, Stomach Cancer, Los Angeles, Science and Technology, Cancer
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Children with rare brain disease improve after gene therapy
Florida Jewish JournalUsing gene transfer techniques pioneered by University of Florida faculty, Taiwanese doctors have restored some movement in four children bedridden with a rare, life-threatening neurological disease. The first-in-humans achievement may also be helpful...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Health, Viral Diseases and Infections, Medical Research, Technology
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American Cancer Society Increases Funding to $5.5 Million for Illinois Researchers
TribLocal - EvanstonIllinois scientists at the forefront of cancer research will receive more than $5.5 million from the Illinois Division of the American Cancer Society this year. …... -
Websites let friends better help friends in need
Kelly Gorder of Boulder, Colo., initially felt helpless when she learned last year that longtime friend Naomi Damask, of Chicago, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Gorder wanted to do something for Damask and her family, but the distance made it...
Tags: Health, Heart Problems, Diseases and Illnesses, Facebook, Hospitals and Clinics
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Columbia firm is world's first to market with stem cell drug
A Columbia-based biotechnology company said this week it received the world’s first government approval to market a stem cell drug, in Canada. Osiris Therapeutics, founded in 1992, spent 17 years developing a stem cell therapy that offers anti-...
Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Diabetes, Technology, Food and Drug Administration, Trials
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Cancer survivors, friends ready to walk for a cure
HAMPTON — Two years ago, Linda Batchelor Smith couldn't finish a lap around the track at Darling Stadium during Hampton's Relay for Life. The nerves in her legs had been damaged from her chemotherapy treatment and her entire body was weak. Last...
Tags: Health, Breast Cancer, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Smithfield, Hospitals and Clinics
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General Assembly raises income tax on top 14 percent
It took three carefully scripted days, but Maryland's ruling Democrats finally put in place the budget deal that eluded them in the waning hours of the state's regular session last month.
The revenue package approved by the House on Wednesday will...Tags: Martin O'Malley, State Income Tax, Parties and Movements, Interior Policy, Michael E. Busch
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Bone marrow drive to aid retired Parkland teacher
The efforts of a school community could save the life of a beloved teacher or one of the tens of thousands of people in need of a bone marrow transplant.
Parkland High School is hosting a bone marrow drive Saturday during its Festival of the Arts in...Tags: Health, Teaching and Learning, Medical Procedures and Tests, Bone Marrow, Immune System
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Hopkins engineer students create devices to help keep babies alive
Johns Hopkins University Engineering students unveiled devices Monday that they hope will lower the number of still births and deaths from fever-related illnesses in developing countries. FeverPoint is a screening test that uses a cotton thread and a...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Chemicals, Health, Malaria, Science and Technology
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Local biotech firm wins grant to develop vaccines for two viruses
Profectus BioSciences Inc., a Baltimore-based biotechnology company, said Wednesday that it won a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the development of a vaccine for a pair of contagious and deadly viruses that the U.S....Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Health, Australia, Drugs and Medicines, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Standing wheelchair fit for the operating room
WGN NewsA standing wheelchair. It's not the first of its kind, but it will go where no others have. It's a project five University of Wisconsin at Madison students embraced -- more than a thousand hours in the making and a chance to change the life of a surgeon...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Health, Skype, Teaching and Learning, Technology
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Virgen's View: Boy with brain tumor honored as part of UCI team
There wasn't a big match to be played on Tuesday, but a member of the UC Irvine men's volleyball team remained nervous for an important event dealing with the Anteaters. If you were at the celebration ceremony to honor the UCI team's national...
Tags: Health, College Sports, UC Irvine Anteaters, Science and Technology, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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