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Today's Reuters Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Death toll rises to nine from Oklahoma tornadoes Glaxo drug shown to delay ovarian cancer relapse Rock guitarist May leads London march against badger cull Drug is a first to help patients with melanoma of the eye Amgen melanoma drug improved survival by 21 percent in interim look

Death toll rises to nine from Oklahoma tornadoes  Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 08:59 PM PDT By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Nine people were killed in tornadoes that swept through central Oklahoma on Friday, part of a storm system that caused widespread flooding in Oklahoma City and its suburbs, the state's chief medical examiner said on Saturday. Among the dead were two children and seven adults, said Amy Elliott, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office. Two of the victims remain unidentified and officials said the names of those killed would not be released until their next of kin were notified. Severe storms also swept into neighboring Missouri. ... Full Story	Top
Glaxo drug shown to delay ovarian cancer relapse  Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 09:08 AM PDT By Deena Beasley CHICAGO (Reuters) - A cancer drug sold by GlaxoSmithKline was shown in a clinical trial to extend by several months the length of time ovarian cancer patients lived without their disease worsening. The findings suggest that the oral drug, Votrient, could be used as a "maintenance" therapy for many ovarian cancer patients whose disease had returned after initial surgery and chemotherapy. "This is the first positive clinical trial for a targeted agent in ovarian cancer," said lead study author Dr. ... Full Story	Top
Rock guitarist May leads London march against badger cull  Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:52 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Protesters dressed as badgers and led by Queen guitarist Brian May marched through central London on Saturday demanding that the government scrap a plan to cull badgers, aimed at slowing the spread of a cattle disease. About 5,000 of the nocturnal black-and-white animals are due to be shot by marksmen in the six-week pilot cull, authorized to begin on Saturday in two areas in southwestern England. ... Full Story	Top
Drug is a first to help patients with melanoma of the eye  Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 04:33 AM PDT By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - In his first few weeks as head of the melanoma group at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center seven years ago, a young man walked into Dr. Gary Schwartz's office with a rare form of the skin cancer that affects the eye. "It was horrible. He died of metastatic disease. He was only 24. I promised him I would find a way to cure his cancer," recalls the physician-scientist of the patient who helped inspire his quest to find an effective treatment for uveal melanoma, which affects 2,000 to 3,000 patients each year. ... Full Story	Top
Amgen melanoma drug improved survival by 21 percent in interim look  Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 04:32 AM PDT By Deena Beasley CHICAGO (Reuters) - Data from a pivotal trial of Amgen Inc's experimental melanoma therapy shows that it improved survival by 21 percent for patients with advanced forms of the deadly skin cancer compared with a standard white blood cell-boosting drug. Final survival results are not expected until later this year, but Wall Street has been awaiting the interim trial details to help assess the drug's commercial potential within a new market of promising melanoma treatments. ... Full Story	Top

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