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David L. Davies, 85; Americana Collector Antiques and the Arts Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:02 AM PDT :Longtime antiques and Americana collector David L. Davies (born July 5, 1926, in Illinois) died at home on Telegraph Hill on March 17 at the age of 85 from lung cancer. Hospital to open center for kids with eye cancer Sun Star Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:02 AM PDT read more “Death Star” of Medical Technology: Proton-Beam Therapy Shows “All the Problems” in US Healthcare | 80beats Discover Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:00 AM PDT Proton-beam therapy is massively expensiveâ€"$100+ million facilities, each treatment twice as much as radiationâ€"and not proven to be any safer or more effective than other cancer treatments. So why are U.S. hospitals racing to build new proton-beam facilities? Financial incentives, and the wrong ones, according to a skeptical piece at Bloomberg . To house the 200-ton cyclotron that accelerates ... /R E P E A T -- News Advisory - CNW to carry Ontario budget reaction/ CNW Group via Yahoo! Canada Finance Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:00 AM PDT TORONTO , March 27, 2012 /CNW/ - CNW is expecting reaction to today's provincial budget for Ontario from the following organizations:Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO)Canadian Cancer SocietyCanadian ... Healthy living walk for Kids of Hope Sun Star Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:59 AM PDT HOLIDAY Gym and Spa, as its way of giving back to the community for the many blessings they receive, holds a yearly healthy living walk for the children with cancer. The walk was originally conceived in 2007 as a way of promoting health awareness among the people, that the simplest way to start being active is by simply walking and accumulating 10,000 steps a day for health benefits. read more She took drastic steps to cut cancer risk Everett Herald Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:51 AM PDT Meghann Johnson found a high risk for cancer in genealogy. At only 31, she had her breasts and ovaries removed. Principal suspect in Legacy Insurance scam dies Rappler.com Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:50 AM PDT Celso de los Angeles, the man behind one of the Philippines' biggest financial scams, has died. His lawyer, Noel Malaya, confirmed to Rappler that De los Angeles passed away Tuesday morning, March 27, at St. Luke's hospital in Quezon City. He had been suffering from cancer and had been ... River City stars descend on hospice ic Lanarkshire Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:49 AM PDT Patients in a specialist cancer hospice have been visited by some familiar faces. River City stars Carmen Pieraccini who plays Kelly Marie, Sally Howitt who plays Scarlet Mullen and Stephen "Shellsuit Bob" Purdon toured Marie Curie's Glasgow hospice meeting patients. AMP optimistic in suit to invalidate patents on breast cancer genes EurekAlert! Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:43 AM PDT ( Association for Molecular Pathology ) Now that the Supreme Court has remanded Association for Molecular Pathology et al. v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., et al. to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for further consideration, AMP is optimistic that it will ultimately prevail in its lawsuit to invalidate patents on two genes that are known to cause breast cancer. Quebec review of mammograms finds 109 cases of cancer Canada.com Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:40 AM PDT Quebec's College of Physicians has uncovered 109 cases of breast cancer in its review of 22,000 potentially problematic mammograms at three clinics in Montreal and Laval, the group announced Tuesday.

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