Public Safety
The Salt Lake Tribune Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:57 PM PST
Mark Goldweber, ballet master for Ballet West and director of Ballet West II, died Deb. 9 of cancer. He was 53. His life cast a long shadow through the local and national dance community. |
Brazil's Lula is beating cancer, doctors say
Reuters Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:51 PM PST
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A 75 percent reduction in the size of a tumor in former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's throat has surprised his doctors and could put the popular showman back on the active political roster as early as March. |
AML Patients Have High Response Rate with Vorinostat Added to Treatment
Newswise Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:48 PM PST
Adding a drug that activates genes to frontline combination therapy for acute myeloid leukemia resulted in an 85 percent remission rate after initial treatment, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology. |
Experimental Drug Combination 'Encouraging' in Relapsed Multiple Myeloma
Newswise Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:48 PM PST
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers say when the targeted drug bortezomib stops working in patients with advanced multiple myeloma, the patients survive only an average of five months longer. But a phase 2 clinical trial has shown that pairing bortezomib with an experimental drug, panobinostat, may be a promising new treatment for such patients. |
Kingsburg Cancer Volunteers annual fundraiser
The Kingsburg Recorder Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:45 PM PST
Barbecue chicken dinner, done the Kingsburg Cancer Volunteers way, didn't disappoint residents who ate for a good cause on Saturday, Dec. 3. |
Stop-Start Low-Carb Diets More Effective Than Standard Dieting
Medical News Today Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:24 PM PST
Recent findings presented by researchers at Genesis Prevention Center at University Hospital in South Manchester, England, at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, have demonstrated that an intermittent, low-carbohydrate diet is preferable to a standard and daily calorie-restricted diet to reduce weight and lower blood levels of insulin. High levels of insulin are linked to a ... |
Q&A: When to start checking your blood pressure, tomatoes, coffee, and prostate cancer
Washington Examiner Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:20 PM PST
Dr. Mehment Oz, Michael Roizen Special to The Washington Examiner Q. What's the right age to start monitoring your blood pressure? I'm a multi-tasking mom, 43, with one kid in college and a 3-year-old (second marriage!). -- Maura, via email A. Has your 3-year-old's blood pressure been checked yet? How about your college kid's? If not, get it done. No, we YOU Docs haven't lost it. Neither of your ... |
Community events
Abbotsford Mission Times Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:05 PM PST
The Abbotsford Lions and Regional Recycling holds a fundraiser Dec. 10 for Lilee, a little girl with brain cancer, with a bottle and scrap metal drive, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at 34375 Gladys Ave., Abbotsford. See www.loveforlilee.com for the story. |
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