Carnegie medal posthumously awarded to Siobhan Dowd
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:00 PM PDT
Siobhan Dowd's Bog Child, finished three months before her death from cancer, has taken the Carnegie medal for children's literature and made Dowd its first posthumous winner A novel completed just three months before she died made Siobhan Dowd today the first ever posthumous winner of the most prestigious prize in children's literature, the Carnegie medal. Bog Child , the story of a teenage boy ... |
Norman Glass
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:46 PM PDT
Senior civil servant who was the driving force behind Sure Start An encounter with Norman Glass, who has died of cancer aged 63, was a ready antidote to both the Treasury "mandarin" stereotype of the senior civil servant and the cynical picture of officialdom propagated by The Thick of It. Witty, intense, Leopold Bloom-like in his range of interests - he shared a Dublin Jewish background with ... |
GPs' failure to spot ovarian cancer is costing lives, says report
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:46 PM PDT
Nearly half of women have to wait six months for a correct diagnosis of the 'silent killer', and third must visit their doctor several times before seeing a specialist Women are dying unnecessarily of ovarian cancer because GPs fail to spot warning signs, according to experts. Large numbers of family doctors cannot correctly identify the cancer's symptoms, according to a major study published ... |
Fatty diets raise pancreatic cancer risk
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:45 PM PDT
Diets rich in fat from red meat and dairy products can increase a person's risk of contracting cancer of the pancreas, researchers are warning. Scientists at the National Cancer Institute in the United States asked more than half a million people to provide precise details of their diet over six years. The team found that those who consumed most animal fat had a higher risk of developing the ... |
Remembering Gary Papa, one of our own in the Main Line
Main Line Suburban Life Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:39 PM PDT
Gary Papa, the popular Philadelphia TV sports anchor and St. Davids resident whose on-air fight against prostate cancer undoubtedly scored a heightened awareness of the disease, died Friday. He was 54. |
Our memories of the late Steven Wells
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:35 PM PDT
For the past seven years, until his death on Tuesday, Steven Wells wrote a weekly column for guardian.co.uk/sport. Here's a selection of his best work Until a few months ago, when the ghastly return of lymphatic cancer again pinned him to his hospital bed, Steven Wells would send me a weekly email detailing the five or six ideas swirling around his brain. Most of them would journey chaotically ... |
Warâs Toxic Legacy
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:28 PM PDT
WHEELING - Four Ohio Valley soldiers are among nearly 50 nationwide who have filed a federal lawsuit against civilian contractor KBR Inc. after they were exposed to hexavalent chromium, a potent, sometimes deadly chemical linked to cancer and other devastating diseases. |
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