Restaurant fundraiser helps fight cancer
Corvallis Gazette-Times Sat, 16 May 2009 22:02 PM PDT
Qdoba Mexican Grill, 2001 N.W. Monroe, will donate 25 percent of all sales today, Friday, to the Relay for Life/American Cancer Society. |
Support group members are Bosom Buddies
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Sat, 16 May 2009 22:01 PM PDT
Uniontown resident Sonnie Smith, a retired nurse, used her experience to start a local chapter of Bosom Buddies, a support group for breast cancer patients when she was diagnosed with cancer. |
Collected Wisdom: Wayman Tisdale
The Oklahoman Sat, 16 May 2009 22:01 PM PDT
We always intended to sit down with Wayman Tisdale and interview the basketball legend and jazz superstar for our "Collected Wisdom†series. Trouble was, he never sat still long enough.But when Tisdale died Friday after a public and courageous battle with cancer, we realized he had been sharing his wisdom all along. It was simply up to us to collect it.As long as you live, you’re going to have ... |
'Farrah's Story' draws nearly 9 million viewers
Mohave Daily News Sat, 16 May 2009 21:52 PM PDT
LOS ANGELES - NBC says an estimated 8.9 million people watched a documentary about Farrah Fawcett's battle against cancer. The film, "Farrah's Story," aired Friday on NBC, detailing the former "Charlie's Angels" treatment and hopes for recovery. |
Longtime Florida legislator Jim King says he has pancreatic cancer
The Florida Times-Union Sat, 16 May 2009 21:41 PM PDT
TALLAHASSEE - A longtime Florida lawmaker and former state Senate president has announced he has cancer. Republican Sen. Jim King of Jacksonville said Saturday he has pancreatic cancer that was diagnosed during a recent checkup. A spokeswoman for King said he realizes the difficulty in treating the disease, but that he plans to continue serving his Jacksonville constituency. King served in the ... |
Setbacks and success
Lancaster Online Sat, 16 May 2009 21:33 PM PDT
It was harder for some than for others to reach that culminating moment in The Dell, where Elizabethtown College officials handed out diplomas.Rachel Rohland, a communications major from Cleona, was grief-stricken when her mother, Marcia Rohland, died of cancer midway through her sophomore year.Melv. |
The future of personalized cancer treatment: An entirely new direction for RNAi delivery
EurekAlert! Sat, 16 May 2009 21:28 PM PDT
( University of California - San Diego ) In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have developed an efficient system for delivering siRNA into primary cells. The work will be published in the May 17 in the advance on-line edition of ... |
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