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Jerry Brown, a survivor at the top of his game
It's said in politics that timing is everything, that success depends on picking the right time to make one's move. When Barack Obama decided in early 2007 to launch a presidential bid as a freshman U.S. senator at age 45, the naysayers wondered why he...Tags: Elections, Regional Authority, U.S. Senate, Jimmy Carter, Jerry Brown
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L.A. Now Live: Latest on doctor killed in Newport Beach
L.A. NOWTimes reporter Nicole Santa Cruz will join L.A. Now Live to discuss the case of Dr. Ronald Gilbert, who was slain at his medical office near Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach.... -
Consummate outsider artist Fred Burkhart emerges from underground
As you begin to read this story about Fred Burkhart, Fred Burkhart may be dead. That's a shock, I know, but it is what it is. In August, Burkhart was told that the prostate cancer he has been living with and fighting for more than three years had...
Tags: Arts, Minority Groups, Photography, Stroke, Arts and Culture
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Cancer death rates down 20 percent in past two decades
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterSome promising news in the fight against cancer. The death rate from cancer in the United States is down substantially in the past two decades. According to the American Cancer Society, rates rose steadily in the 1900's peaking in 1991. In 2009...Tags: Health Organizations, Death, American Cancer Society
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FTC says POM Wonderful juice ads were deceptive
The Federal Trade Commission has upheld a judge’s finding that the owners of POM Wonderful pomegranate juice made false claims about the health benefits of their products. The commission found that dozens of POM Wonderful advertisements made...
Tags: Arts, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Heart Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, Justice System
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Huell Howser died of prostate cancer, death certificate says
Public television star Huell Howser died of metastatic prostate cancer, his death certificate filed in Riverside County states. Howser, 67, died at his home Jan. 6, but a cause of death was never publicly revealed. He was best known as the star of the...Tags: Huell Howser, Norman Lear, Death
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KEVIN FRANDSEN, RYAN HOWARD BOBBLEHEADS HIGHLIGHT IRONPIGS PROMOTIONS ...
The Hog BlogLater this month Kevin Frandsen will defend his title at the annual 19 for Life bocce ball tournament, a major fundraiser for foundation (19forlife.org) founded by his family to raise money for cancer research in honor of his late brother. Thursday, the... -
'I was never alone' Heart pump and family help Geistown man survive health scare
Ray Alt is a fighter, his wife says. After two years in and out of hospitals for a swiftly deteriorating heart, the Geistown man has become the first in the Johnstown area to receive a new type of heart pump, designed to keep his blood flowing while...
Tags: Easter, Heart Failure, Heart Surgery, Disc Jockeys, Health Treatments
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Jay Leno spotlights Allentown and IronPigs
In this week's medical news, it turns out that a chain of hospitals run by the Roman Catholic Church has decided that unborn babies are people, after all, and an Allentown group of urologists has been featured on national television in an alarming way....Tags: General Practitioners, Christianity, Jay Leno, Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Roman Catholicism
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Eugene Patterson dies at 89; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Eugene Patterson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist whose impassioned words helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement as it unfolded across the South, has died at 89. Patterson, who helped fellow whites understand the...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Civil Rights, Newspaper and Magazine, Journalism
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Racial gaps remain in cancer rates
Cancer death rates among African American men declined faster than those of white men in the last decade, even though overall survival rates for black men and women remained the lowest of all racial groups for most types of cancer, according to a recent...
Tags: Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer, Death, American Cancer Society
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Feb 13, 2013
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|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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