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  • Nutrition Wise: Osteoporosis Risk in Cancer Survivors, Graham Cracker Piecrusts, Duck Meat Served Pink Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 1:45PMBy Karen Collins, MS, RD, CDN - Q: Is it true that cancer survivors face increased risk for osteoporosis? Q: Are graham cracker piecrusts lower in fat than those made with traditional dough? Q: When duck meat is served pink, is it safe to eat?
  • Transplant success raises stem-cell promise | Loveland Reporter-Herald Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 12:41PMThe transplant itself wasn’t groundbreaking. What was: the fact that the trachea consisted of tissue grown from the recipient’s own stem cells, which eliminated the need for drugs to keep her body from rejecting the transplant.
  • Cancer patient’s drug battle Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 11:16AMA GRANDFATHER battling cancer has slammed the postcode lottery that denies sufferers in South Wales a life-extending drug available in England.
  • FDA Approves Promacta(R) (Eltrombopag), The First Oral Medication To Increase Platelet Production For People With ... Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 11:07AMGlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval for PROMACTA(R) (eltrombopag) for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in patients with chronic immune (idiopathic) thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) who have had an insufficient response to corticosteroids, immunoglobulins or splenectomy.
  • Ten-month-old girl faces bone marrow transplant Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 11:01AMTen-month-old Hanna Holliday squeals with delight as her father lifts her into the air and draws her close to his chest.
  • Iowa Football: Ex-Hawkeye Jeter is felled by a heart attack Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 10:07AMHawkeye runner became two-time Pro Bowl corner with Lombardi’s Packers.
  • Creamer calls on women to break grass ceiling Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 5:26AMCalling for women to break grass ceiling
  • Nugent roasted, toasted Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 5:15AMWhitchurch-Stouffville
  • Dwindling daylight sheds light on need for vitamin D Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 5:10AMart of the skepticism, perhaps, stems from the hype that so#-#called #=cm DSQ=#super nutrients#=cm DEQ=# have received. #=EP=#Dr. John Cannell, a southern California physician who heads the nonprofit vitamin D Council, says the medical establishment may be gun#-#shy after initial giddiness over the likes of vitamin E. #=EP=##=cm DSQ=#It seems too good to be true, all these studies,#=cm DEQ=# ...
  • Packers great Jeter dies at 71 Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 10:08AMGREEN BAY -- Bob Jeter was miscast as a wide receiver during his early years with the Green Bay Packers. Who knew he would emerge as a Pro Bowl cornerback and key starter on a pair of Super Bowl championship teams under Vince Lombardi in the 1960s
  • Blood cancer sufferers may be part of international study Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 9:47AMPeople in Schuylkill, Carbon and Luzerne counties diagnosed with the blood cancer polycythemia vera soon will be able to participate in an international research program.
  • Relatives deny giving OK to harvesting of body parts Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 8:26AMThree people said Thursday that they never gave permission for bone and tissue to be removed from dead relatives being prepared for cremation at a Hilton funeral home.
  • Joseph B. Stevens Jr., head of concessions firm Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 8:26AMJoseph B. Stevens Jr., former president and chairman of Harry M. Stevens Inc., the oldest concessions business in America, died Nov. 13 of bone cancer at Heron Point retirement community in Chestertown. He was 92.
  • 2,000-mile trek focuses on canine cancer Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 8:16AMFRANKLIN — Dog owners know that their pups like going for walks. But for Luke Robinson and his two Great Pyrenees, this just might be going a little overboard.
  • Donated organs can give people a new life Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 10:50PMSan Gabriel resident Stanley Gray has had a lot of new starts in his life: getting off drugs, getting out of prison, writing an award-winning screenplay, starting his own business. But nothing compares to the new start he got one year ago when he was the recipient of a donated liver to replace his own cancer-ridden one.
  • Windpipe transplant deemed successful Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 10:23PMBy admin Thursday, 20 November 2008 - 5:19pm. LONDON—Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.
  • Sweet success for new stem cell ID trick Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 9:02PM(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomaterial scientists in Manchester believe they have found a new way of isolating the ‘ingredients` needed for potential stem cell treatments for nerve damage and heart disease.
  • Amgen Drug for Lung Cancer Suspended After Deaths (Update2) Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 7:33PMNov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Amgen Inc. ’s decision to suspend a clinical trial of its experimental cancer drug motesanib because of higher deaths among patients sets back the company’s efforts to expand in the market for oncology treatments.
  • Bone Marrow/Blood Drive on Thursday Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 7:29PMOn Thursday, November 20, the Malcolm White School on Bow Street will be hosting a Bone Marrow/Blood Drive in honor of two Woburn children who are both courageously battling cancer, namely, Bridget Sweeney and Ethan Hickey.
  • Community bands together to support young leukemia patient Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 5:52PMMIDDLESBORO — Employees all over Middlesboro “got the memo” and wore orange clothing to work last Friday. Don’t be mistaken, the town wasn’t heading to a Tennessee football game. They came together for a far greater cause: Kaleigh Foreman.
  • UT Student Needs Your Blood [Call To Action] Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 5:49PM paraflyer/flickr We here at Austinist are asking for your help. In a story that could only be described as utterly heartbreaking, Josh Talbot , a junior Radio-TV-Film student at UT, is in desperate need of both white blood cells and a bone marrow donor. What started out as a case of mononucleosis in September has morphed into a very rare complication from Epstein-Barr called ...
  • Tisdale to perform at All-College Classic Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 5:26PM Associated Press - November 20, 2008 12:15 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Former NBA player and Oklahoma star Wayman Tisdale will make his first musical appearance since having a portion of his...
  • MattsonJack Study Reveals Cachexia Emerging as a Lucrative Opportunity for Pharma Companies Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 3:06PM Cachexia has emerged as a high-profile, high-potential-value supportive care indication in the oncology market and is potentially the most competitive and lucrative indication for the first novel agent approved, according to a physician study conducted by The Mattson Jack Group, Inc. (MattsonJack), a recognized leader in business analytics for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.
  • Canadian scientists to help Bangladesh solve its water woes Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 3:01PMA team of 11 scientists from four countries led by Doctor Bibudhendera Sarkar, senior scientist emeritus, SickKids Hospital, Toronto, has developed what it claims is a practical strategy to ensure drinking water safety in third world countries like Bangladesh.
  • Laureate Pharma Honored as Emerging Life Sciences Company of the Year Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 2:55PM Laureate Pharma, Inc., a full-service biopharmaceutical development and protein production company, today announced that it has been named the "Emerging Life Science Company of the Year" by The Eastern Technology Council, the largest technology and life sciences trade association in the greater Philadelphia, PA region.
  • Gloucester Pharmaceuticals to Present Positive Results from Multiple Romidepsin Clinical Trials at the ASH Annual ... Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 2:33PM CAMBRIDGE, Mass.----Gloucester Pharmaceuticals today announced four presentations from clinical trials of romidepsin at the upcoming 50th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting being held in San Francisco, CA, December 6 – 9, 2008.
  • Laskey looks back on a memorable four months on road Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 2:08PMLooking at Stephen Laskey, it’s hard to believe everything he carried with him for 130 days and nights. He’s tall and thin, an assembly of bone, muscle and skin and not much else. His skinny, wiry frame gives him the look of a man made of elastic.
  • New Scan Spots Beginning of Bone Problems in Anorexics Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 2:07PMStructural abnormalities start early, researchers report.
  • Learn about the World Regenerative Medicine Market Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 1:11PM NEW YORK----Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Pharmaceutical industry industry is available in its catalogue.
  • Brothers Make Film About Vitamin D Deficiency Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 9:41PMTwo local brothers are on a mission to teach children about weak bones.
  • Remembering Emru Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 8:13PMThough Pierrefonds resident Emru Townsend, 39, died peacefully in his sleep last Tuesday night at the Jewish General Hospital out of complications due to an advanced form of cancer called acute myelogenous leukemia, his sister Tamu would like to keep the public advocacy work they started together last March alive...
  • Health Highlights: Nov. 19, 2008 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 8:11PMPlastic in Lean Cuisine chicken meals; primary-care docs dissatisfied; more
  • UNC Researchers Find Clue To Stopping Breast Cancer Metastasis Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 8:30AMIf scientists knew exactly what a breast cancer cell needs to spread, then they could stop the most deadly part of the disease: metastasis. New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine takes a step in that direction.
  • Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 8:26AMDoctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.
  • Landmark organ transplant carried out Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 8:01AMA young-mother of two has been given a new wind-pipe in a landmark operation that could change the face of transplant surgery.
  • Thanks for Giving 2008: Can you help, Lincoln? Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 7:09AMFor 25 years, Journal Star readers have helped meet the needs of their neighbors through the newspaper’s Thanks for Giving project. The premise is simple. We ask service providers to share their clients’ needs with us, and we share them with you.
  • Woman gets transplant of windpipe grown from her stem cells Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 6:14AMBy MARIA CHENG LONDON — Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ...
  • CAPHOSOL results in minimal oral mucositis and pain in head/neck cancer patients Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 3:33PM( Eusa ) New data show that CAPHOSOL, an advanced electrolyte solution, results in low rates of oral mucositis and pain in patients with head and neck cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The data were presented today at the Advanced Practice Nursing Conference of the Oncology Nursing Society.
  • Biologist Michael Levin Joins Tufts University Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 2:20PMMichael Levin, who headed the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at The Forsyth Institute and was on the faculty at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, has been named biology professor at Tufts University. He focuses on left-right asymmetry, bioelectrical controls of pattern formation, and how living systems learn and store information outside the brain.
  • Harbor Springs native conquers mountains Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 1:34PMThere’s no terrain Mandy (Baker) Andersen can’t negotiate.
  • Charity event blends racing, music Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 1:31PMFREMONT --Three friends. Three bands. Three causes. One fundraiser among many, F.A.S.T. FEST may just be a bit unique. This past spring, friends and racing enthusiasts Bryan Autullo and Scott Porter of Fremont formed Fremont/Attica Sprint Title.
  • Daily Herald Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 1:27PMLITTLETON — The small gray van pulling the battered utility trailer sits parked outside the doors of the empty venue. A few early arrivals mingle around the van, joking with the musicians as they gather the last of their equipment.
  • Local gay couples say rally was a good show of support Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 3:49AM Kate and Diane Benison of Northborough married on May 17, 2004, the day same-sex marriage became legal in the Bay State.
  • Cancer Treatment May Result In Bone Loss, Study Finds Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 3:45AMA new cross-Canada study has found that breast and prostate cancer treatment can foster bone loss. Scientists explain how loss of bone mass might affect 46,000 people diagnosed with breast and prostate cancer each year and place them at increased risk for osteoporosis and fractures.
  • Top Scoops Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 2:09AMLooking over the seven page questionnaire that the Obama organization has for prospective appointees, several thoughts occurred:
  • Run for Raul Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 1:02AMStaying in a hospital is not fun, but one Savannah teen is trying to make it a little easier.  
  • Caring for Kayla benefit Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 3:30PMA spaghetti dinner and silent auction will be held for Kayla Pugh from 4 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 601 E. Second St., Waconia.
  • Dogs given new hope Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 1:00PMA THREE-LEGGED pooch and cancer-stricken dog have become part of Australian-first experiments by a Melbourne veterinary surgeon.
  • Six years at sea fulfilled lifelong dream for retired Navy officer Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 12:52PM An occasional series about southern New Jersey residents who recently died, leaving lasting marks on their community, their neighborhood, their friends or families.
  • Research center marking 20 years Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 8:05AMAt a spry 58, Nancy Brandt still enjoys annual treks into the Montana wilderness to hunt big game.