Kennedy: Prepare for My Replacement
The Advocate Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:08 AM PDT
Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who is currently battling brain cancer, told state officials to adjust succession laws, should he have to leave office before the debate on health care comes to a vote in the senate. |
Cancer-stricken Senator Ted Kennedy asks for speedy replacement process
New England Cable News Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:25 AM PDT
(NECN: Brad Puffer, Boston, Mass.) - Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy is urging that his Senate seat be filled as soon as possible in the event when it becomes necessary for him to surrender his seat. Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in May 2008. Kennedy was initially treated with surgery, followed by chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Text of a letter from Sen. Edward ... |
Corrected: Ailing Kennedy seeks quicker Senate succession
Reuters via Yahoo! News Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:23 AM PDT
U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, who has advanced brain cancer, urged Massachusetts leaders to change state law so it could quickly fill a vacancy in the Senate as it decides on an overhaul of U.S. healthcare. |
Ill Kennedy urges fast succession
BBC News Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:39 AM PDT
Senator Edward Kennedy, who has brain cancer, urges a change in Massachusetts law to ensure his seat would be quickly filled. |
Ailing Kennedy urges quicker replacement process
AFP via Yahoo! Canada News Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:27 AM PDT
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, a lion of the American left who has been battling brain cancer, has urged changes to laws governing how his seat would be filled in order to avoid a months-long vacancy. |
'Housekeeping' genes play important role in developmental pathways of cells
PhysOrg Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:22 AM PDT
A study from the Center for Molecular Genetics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows that a gene called HPRT plays an important role in setting the program by which primitive or precursor cells decide to become normal nerve cells in the human brain. This unconventional view of metabolic genes known as "housekeeping" genes is now online at the journal Molecular ... |
Ailing Kennedy wants replacement law changed
CNN Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:14 AM PDT
Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, is urging Massachusetts officials to change a law to allow for an immediate temporary replacement should a vacancy occur for one of his state's two Senate seats. |
Seeking New Smoking Cessation Target
Medical News Today Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:13 AM PDT
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a scientist at the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center a $275,000 grant to study a rare brain receptor that may be a new smoking cessation target. |
F-bomb noshers ruin restaurant with racism
Charleston City Paper Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:12 AM PDT
I know that our society operates on several fractured factions and for better or worse we live in a culture that fosters racism in all forms. I have lived my life accepting all as my equal, and abhor any sort of racial superiority as a cardinal sin and a function of the less primitive part of humanity's brain that evolution has yet to conquer. I was saddened to be treated to a blatant display of ... |
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